To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

All of world’s eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.

The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.