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.

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'.

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.

Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too, but at that time YOU will not envy them...

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Working out makes me feel strong and energized every time. It's my therapy for my mind and my body.