Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world..

I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of….

There are deep wells of strength that are never used..

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion..

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, t….

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others..

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need..

Progress grows out of motion..

A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting h….

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror..

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold..

In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier.….

What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also i….

I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed ….

The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, ….

At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and ….

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable..

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things..

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter..

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used..

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change..