Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.