What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the worl

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 is to the g…

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. ~ Ch. 2

That risks were involved, all of us knew; but none, so far as we could foresee, that were too great. Otherwise, as leader of a big polar expedition, and subjec…

They like to write only bad things about me.

Basically there's a gulf between truth and untruth, I don't want to be too mathematical about it, because I'm not very good at maths. But it's a divide between…

What a jolly awakening there will be some few years hence, when the inevitable argument of experience will show us a nation contradicting itself through the vo…