"My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times."

"Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win."

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

"I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it."

"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."

"It is a unyielding truth that an idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism."

"Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it."

"Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music."