Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

A light supper, a good night's sleep and a fine morning have often made a hero out of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.

Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.