Winners are born, Champions are made.

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.

... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

The author is still dead, folks!!

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.