And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.

O it’s Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy ‘ow’s your soul/But it’s thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.

One of the worst days in America’s history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans’ history. We’ll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.