You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
If we mean to have heroes statesmen and philosophers we should have learned women.
Old myths old gods old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror and they should never be forgotten.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
The truth is I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah they have all the necessary leisure.
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal put teachers. They are society's heroes.
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
As we continue to fight the War on Terror it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect while being laid to rest.
When leaders take back power when they act as heroes and saviors they end up exhausted overwhelmed and deeply stressed.