I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

Any criticism of someone you love is hard to take.

My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket