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

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.

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.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Discover where and what makes you come alive and make a deliberate decision to live there.

Monsters can live inside a person. Sometimes they know about it. More often they don't.

Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.

If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?

Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord you still got hands.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.