Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.