“Life is definitely a roller coaster, it's only when you begin to appreciate the ups and the downs that the ride becomes more fulfilling.”

“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.”

“Truth rarely shows up in public dressed as itself.”

“When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.”

“A bear took a walk in a deep dark woodAnd stopped just where a Rabbit stood“Do you have trouble with stinky poo Sticking to your fur when you go to the loo?”Said the big brown bear to the small white hare.The rabbit pointed his nose to the sky "Trouble with poo! Oh no not I"“Good” said the bear “then if you don’t mind?”Picked up the bunny and wiped his behind”

“I mean, in the last few months alone, I've been pinned in a big set of white-water rapids, been bitten by an angry snake in a jungle, had a close escapewith a big mountain rockfall, narrowly avoided being eaten by a huge croc in the Australian swamps, and had to cut away from my main parachute and come down on my reserve, some five thousand feet above the Arctic plateau.When did all this craziness become my world?It's as if - almost accidentally - this madness had become my life. And don't get me wrong - I love it all.The game, though, now, is to hang on to that life. Every day is the most wonderful of blessings, and a gift that I never, ever take for granted.Oh, and as for the scars, broken bones, aching limbs and sore back?I consider them just gentle reminders that life is precious - and that maybe, just maybe, I am more fragile than I dare to admit.”

“It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride.”