"For in my heart," he once said, "I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth."

English astronomer Richard Anthony Proctor would say of Sir John Herschel,

“As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.”

There are no sermons here.
Only questions.
Only the next step.
Only the weight of your own name
carried through time
with care.

“They’re murdering us here. Let’s move inland and get murdered.”

“I’m only sorry I couldn’t have had as good a chance as a boy.”

“Jackie was an irresistible force…Generous, egotistical, compassionate, sensitive, aggressive – indeed an explosive study in contradictions – Jackie was consistent only in the overflowing energy with which she attacked the challenge of being alive…”