“Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.”

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.

I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.

I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!

As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

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.

I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

Two words that will change your life…. Yes Lord!

Watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

..Science is changing. God’s Word does not change!

I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.

Ted Kennedy’s achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.