Live for the present –’ I heard my parents’ old maxim in the back of my head ‘– and the future will look after itself. - Richard Branson

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn’t change a thing about my life.

Simon's interest and love for life comes from arts, from music, books, his collection of paintings and beautiful cars. My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

If I had refused to contemplate skydiving, hot-air ballooning or crossing the Atlantic in a boat, I think that my life would have been the duller for it. I never think that I am going to die by accident, but if I were to die then all I can say is that I was wrong, and the hardened realists who kept their feet on the ground were right. But at least I tried.