I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

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.

Love is a trick best performed by men.

If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again.

You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.