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

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

I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.

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

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

When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

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.