I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.

Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

Worrying Never Stops a Problem but a Problem Ceases when you Refuse to Worry

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.