Bear Grylls

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

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

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.