Edmund Hillary Quote

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

As quoted in "Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88" in The New York Times (online edition) (10 January 2008)

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/asia/11cn...