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

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.

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

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.

Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

Faith is a creative force. When we operate by faith, we employ the creative power of God.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.