I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

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.

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

Eyes locked, they stared. She felt bleeding pain down to her soul.

I think security is a big issue for people.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer.

The spirit is the thing I most love about my kind of geekdom.

Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.