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.

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.

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.

A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell.

Your information should be always inspiration

In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.

When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.