Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Man, I really like Vegas.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Children make your life important.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

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

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

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.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.