The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Henry Miller

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. Norman Schwarzkopf

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve

Calculation never made a hero. John Henry Newman