The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Aren't people supposed to do movies so that they can get girls?

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Wishes for a happy Friday, and a happy day for every day of the week.

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.

The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.