I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that..

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Sp….

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school..

Life is a re-discovery..

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!".

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy..

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time..

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m..

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures..

In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say….

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked ev….

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space..

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encou….

I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost wo….

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed:….

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowl….

My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for at least six months….