The faster you can signal for rescue, the faster you get out of that situation.

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.

The same water that will kill you, drown you, give you hypothermia is the same water that will help you survive.

Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.

It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.

If you don't have your game-face on, you're going to go home either to a hospital or to a casket.

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.

The decided to go exploring, be Indiana Jones they don't have a light they don't have a map you're a screwed with a capital S.

It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.

He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility’s strength is grounded in God.

A dead plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.But you also get kind of used to it.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.