My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

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.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.