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.

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.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.