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

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.

Romance her, enhance her, desire her, put her first.

Everything is red, freakin pink, and all heartsy. Everywhere! It’s driving me insane!

The music I actually listen to sounds nothing like my own!

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems almost transparent.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.