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

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

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.

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 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.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Precaution is better than cure.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

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

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.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

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

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

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.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

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

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

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

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 have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

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.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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.

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

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

He that’s secure is not safe.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

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.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

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

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

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

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

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

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

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

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

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

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

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

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

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

There is always safety in valor.

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 don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.