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.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

Well done is better than well said.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.