Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

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

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

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.