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My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm.

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'