I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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.
The simple act of caring is heroic.