I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Gnan [True Knowledge] means the Guru's experiential talks.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.