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

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

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

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.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Optimism is the true moral courage

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.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

When things are easy, I hate it.

Optimism is true moral courage.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

By endurance we conquer.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.

Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.