My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

Permanent self-development and self-education are also very important

It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

Turn your scars into stars.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

I like playing with a good crowd.