Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

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

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.