Beauty is the door to another world.

Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.

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.

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.

Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.