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.