“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”

“Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goalseems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attentionhas diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is nowgreater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like deaththrough freezing - a pleasant one.”

“...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.”

“Warum steigen Sie auf Berge Herr Messner?""Weil sie da sind”

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.”