No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.

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, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.

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

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

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

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

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.

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