I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

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.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.

Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

You look what's happening all over Europe - Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed.

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.