“Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.”
“In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.”
“This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.”
“Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.”
“To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.”
“True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one”