But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

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.

no matter what you call him...we all pray to the same source

Children can see the beatitudes in nature.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.