Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Trust, but verify.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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.

When in doubt, don’t.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

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.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

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

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.

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

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

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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

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

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

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

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

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

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

He that’s secure is not safe.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

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.

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 choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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.

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

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

There is always safety in valor.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

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

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

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

I really haven’t liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

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.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

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.

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.

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.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.