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

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

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.

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

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.

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.