To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

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.

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.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again

When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.

I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.