A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something
bigger than oneself. It doesn't take a hero to order men into
battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into
battle. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with
composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does
not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five
minutes longer Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents
are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to
create progress. The hero is valorous because he stands up to
every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value
conflict. If one is determined to die for the truth, even a
common man can create history. It is the cause and not merely
the death that makes the martyr. A scholar's ink lasts longer
than a martyr's blood. Martyrdom does not end something, it only
a beginning. It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. A
hero is an ordin