Well, Winston Churchill once said there was nothing so exhilarating as to be shot at without results".
"There's nothing more exhilarating for a pissant Pentagon civilian than dealing with an important national security issue without dealing with military planners, who are always worried about risk," he told me.
And in Formula One there is nothing as exhilarating, and at times as blood-freezing, as a battle between team-mates with identical machinery at their disposal and the stakes at their highest.
The Founding Fathers had rolled the dice and put their heads on the line, but theirs was the experience of eluding the bullet, and, as Churchill said, there is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result.
There's much to savor in the quadrennial spectacle of the Olympics, which will begin in London next weekend, but perhaps nothing more exhilarating than the way it showcases and celebrates the athleticism of women almost as much as it does the athleticism of men.
One of the memorable bites of the early days of the Iraq invasion was the exultant embedded correspondent citing Churchill on camera: "There's nothing more exhilarating than being shot at and missed!" A far cry indeed from being shot at and hit.
There is nothing more exhilarating than watching a drone like this one take to the air, and there is little more exciting than firing this thing up for the first time.
There is nothing more exhilarating, than a conversation with a woman that is as passionate about her work as you are about life.
Nothing matches the exhilarating, time-scrambling first act, but the cast throughout is extraordinary.
Despite the ominous news of global warming, Frey draws a portrait of a man and a place that is nothing short of exhilarating.
