Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

If we mean to have heroes statesmen and philosophers we should have learned women.

Old myths old gods old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror and they should never be forgotten.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

The truth is I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah they have all the necessary leisure.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal put teachers. They are society's heroes.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect while being laid to rest.

When leaders take back power when they act as heroes and saviors they end up exhausted overwhelmed and deeply stressed.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

The law has no power over heroes.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches copies of copies until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity doubt uncertainty not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material but because that is the way we humans really are.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but at the same time want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff writing and making movies and TV but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.