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

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids like my mom and my sister do.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning four years were spent refining and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.