Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

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.