Optimism is true moral courage.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

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 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.

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