For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

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.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

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.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

I am not young enough to know everything.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.