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- Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
- Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
- We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
- Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
- If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
- Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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