Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

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

Beauty is the door to another world.

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

Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.

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

Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.