And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

Making hard decisions in life to accomplish the dreams, It requires a gut from within.

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The planetary etheric body is a whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and the patient are integral, intrinsic parts.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

What I keep telling people is, getting trade agreements that are good for America is good for everybody.