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

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

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