If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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.
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
By endurance we conquer.
Optimism is true moral courage.
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.