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.

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

Optimism is true moral courage.

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

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.

Optimism is the true moral courage

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