“To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
“No–one believes they’re a hero. But that doesn’t mean they’re not heroic - Captain Spectre.”
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”
“Long ago I left heroics to the heroes”
“There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.”