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

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

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

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

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.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.