Beauty is the door to another world.

I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.

Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.

Beauty is the door to another world.