A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.
Give wind and tide a chance to change.
I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.
In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.