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

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.

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.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

He that’s secure is not safe.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

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?

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

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

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.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I really haven’t liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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.

I jog up to the Hollywood sign every weekend. It’s fun and what a view!

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

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

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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.

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

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.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

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.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

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.

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.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

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

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

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

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.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

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.

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

There is always safety in valor.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.