- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?

I don’t mind my friends calling me 'Thornes, ' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.