Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.