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 have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

I save all my problems for my mother.

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

'Game of Thrones' is great. Love it.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

Im a hairstylist I could tell you stories that would curl your hair.

I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach generates far more likes, but I've never actually gone back and run the averages.

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.