The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night. - Richard E. Byrd

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 good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here;

Behind every legend, strange to say, can be found a kernel of truth, a group of facts around which the legend was built.