Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Heroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Teach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

I answer the heroic question "Death where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Let us perform heroic deeds by working together,

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

I've spent several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!