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Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

People aren't universally heroic.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.