I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough
Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.
The mountains were there and so was I.
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.
That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up. . . the prospects for peace and human progress are dark. . . . If. . . . it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.
You're only as good as your values.