The summit is just a halfway point.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.

Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

There are no short cuts to the top.

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.