I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

I love all people, whatever race they are.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Life has to be dangerous.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.