Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

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.

As long as there is institutional inequality, hell, naw we can't all get along!

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.