Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.

To achieve peace, we needed to have a war to start with.

Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want.

Be honest. Be faithful. Be REAL!

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

The eye of God is inside us. It's looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don't you?

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.