Truth is the summit of being.

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we had actually…

— Tony Hsieh

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner…

— Henry David Thoreau

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better,…

— Anatoli Boukreev

President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice…

— Conan O'Brien

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I look forward to hosting Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong], whose friendship and partnership I appreciate very much and with whom I've worked throughout…

— Barack Obama

“men needed to explain the basics to him. A How to Deal with Women summit. Nothing would bond the races faster.”

— Danielle Monsch

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?” “Sure,” I said. After a second, I added, “Probably.” “Probably?” “Maybe,” I said.…

— Jim Butcher

“Summit Lag occurs when a summit worker is kept in a permanent state of mal-acclimatization.”

— Steven Magee

Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and…

— Jeffrey Archer

The White House announced that President Obama will attend a summit in Kenya this July. When asked if he's ever been to Kenya, Obama…

— Jimmy Fallon

“Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up…

— Lloyd C. Douglas