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.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

It is always your next move.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.