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

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

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.

Beauty is the door to another world.

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.

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

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