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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

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.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.