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

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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 sea hath fish for every man.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.