Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away.

Ordinary won't change the world.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

If you've got a problem and you multiply it by 50-million people, it becomes unsolvable, but if you've got a problem and you divide it by 50-million people, it becomes solvable.

I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

Control is the source of strategic power.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.