All is well that ends well
I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.
Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away.
The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money and in this economic climate you just can't afford to do that.
Ordinary won't change the world.
Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.
I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.
I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it. . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.
[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.
I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.
A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.