I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

There is always safety in valor.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Gardening is not a rational act.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.