Patience is produced in the midst of storms

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.