But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

Great God! This is an awful place.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

May you great success in all your daring adventures.

Art does not reproduce the visible

Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so.

That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Those willing to die will live, and those willing to live will die.