“The track temperature is at 32 degrees celsius already and it's climbing like a mountain face at the moment.”

“When I was studying in Bangalore, temperature would be around 21 degree and now it is 31 degree. The drastic increase in the level of temperature is due to industrialisation.”

“The present book is thus neither The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hegel, nor is it yet another university textbook on Hegel (which is for morons, of course) it is something like The Imbecile's Guide to Hegel-Hegel for those whose IQ is somewhere close to their bodily temperature (in Celsius), as the insult goes.”

“This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.”

“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”

“It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb”

“Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.”