“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”

“We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.”

“Hero is a misnomer. India is the only place left in the world where we call our stars heroes and heroines.”

“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”

“In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.”

“We are the hero of our own story.”

“I am no hero
In an age without heroes
I just want to be a man”

“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.”

“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

“To win wars, we had to train our sons to be disposable. We honored boys if they died so we could live. We called them heroes.”