The greatest journeys all start with a single step.

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.

No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.

Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

One should not run on a new road.

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?