As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.

There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

In love you don't doubt, no question. Only when you think you doubt, but when you love you don't doubt, you just love because you enjoy love. And that's why love is joy and joy is love.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.