The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

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.

What women do in front of a mirror with few brushes and colors is, indeed, an art.

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent.' No, he's great. He's a good guy.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.