“I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.”

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

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.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,

You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.