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

Optimism is the 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.

No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man

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

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.

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