I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

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.

The resurrection was not the reversal of a defeat but the manifestation of a victory.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

Life is simple. Life is complicated.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.