Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

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.

Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!

Employment should not be your permanent assignment

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Where there is peace, God is.

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece