“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.”

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

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

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

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.

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

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

All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

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

Life has to be dangerous.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.

Learning is finding out what you already know.