I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

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.

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

Give out what you most want to come back.

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.

Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.