With Alexander’s cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

There’s no love more intense than the love we have for our kids – and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia – something that resists rapid change.

Don’t fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

You don’t have to do everything by the time you’re 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It’s what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I think interviews can be fine. It’s just there’s this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It’s just a fear of not knowing what women have that’s so powerful. It’s this shield they put up to try to get closer.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.