Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

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.

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

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.

As they made their way to the coast, he bemoaned the hotel trade in the manner, Dorrigo felt, that those who love what they do bemoan their passion the most.

When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

I think the consistency comes from the parts.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine.

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)