Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes are rubbish. We shall see — we shall see.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

Families are so beautiful. Wherever we may be, looking at kids and happy families make us feel like home.

Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.