#Heroes

"Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model."

"Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice"people, not heroes."

"What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?"

"I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor."

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale."

"They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy."

"In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot."

"That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire."

"when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you."

"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."

"She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable."

"He rose like heroes, and I rose like rows of red roses. Love grows wherever you plant it, so I try to farm it wherever I go."

"Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it."

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."

"Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."

"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

"I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone."

"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."