What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

We boil at different degrees.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.