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

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

Optimism is true moral courage.

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

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.

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

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.