Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

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.

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

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

For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of ​​transition was always something that at the moment transcends imagination, seemingly absolutely insurmountable, so absurd in terms of the Himalayan conditions that up beautiful.

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.