I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.