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.

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

When things are easy, I hate it.

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

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.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.