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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

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

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

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Gardening is not a rational act.

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

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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

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

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.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

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

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

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

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 tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

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.

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

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

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.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

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

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

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

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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

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.

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

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

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.

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 safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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.

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.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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.

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 things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

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

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

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

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

He that’s secure is not safe.

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

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

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

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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.