Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

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.

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise.