Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

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.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

I think governments can’t do much.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

The little man is still a man.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.