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

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

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

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.

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.

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.

You enhance the beauty of your life by sharpening your awareness and deepening your consciousness.

Gospel of the Kingdom has not been fully expanded upon to this generation of believers.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

With our trade deals we are always second. You can pick any country and they're eating our lunch and making us look bad and so we're going to change that.

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.