Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.