I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

I hope my twin brother will look exactly like me but more sporty.

Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work.

Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be.

The Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.

We Create God, Mankind's Nature.

A realist is a slave to reality.

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.