I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

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.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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!

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

I am two with nature.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I became a beach bum.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

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.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?