My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

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.

Staying true to who you are is essential to anyone's success.

Your reputation is what others think of you

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah my foes and oh my friends - It gives a lovely light.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.

Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.