“Years ago, when I first started mountaineering, I was impetuous, heady, rash, impatient, prideful and arrogant. I in my mind, was both impervious and impregnable, "nothing could stop me," or so I thought."

“Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace.”

“Mountains are for me, a conservatory. It's there, that I am able to exist in the presence of transcendent sentient and symbiotic beings."

“I was born to live in pursuit of the penultimate high. I am guaranteed a Homeric death, when it's my time to die.”

“And if some day, my sons ask, "Dad, why do you climb?" Smiling, I'll reply, I climb so you can fly.”

“Your lies tells me as much about you, as do your truths.”

“Ego is the world's worst narcotic.”

"Sons are born to make their fathers better men."

"The entire human lexicon would mean absolutely nothing, if women didn't exist in the world."

"Have you eaten yet," are quite possibly the sexiest words a woman ever could say to her man. His Limbic System is rewritten each time she ask this question."