To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.