"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" - T. S. Eliot

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves" - Sir Edmund Hillary

"The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have" - Reinhold Messner

"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary." - Friedrich Nietzsche