Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.

If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.

A female dragon’s tail is of the utmost importance to her. Male dragons find them irresistible. After all where do you think the term ‘Getting some tail’ came from?

You don't have to force anyone to Trust You they just do and give away there Heart, Soul and Body to You Only if they really Love you and Mean the world to Them

Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.

You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"