In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.

Those that reach their goals perish.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.

I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Treat your employees like customers.

Love is stronger than violence.

When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.