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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.