"People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy" "If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely." "How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death" "The first truth of Batman...it had to be one I don't like to admit. The gunshots left me alone. For years I was alone in the echoing dark of that well. But something else defined the exact moment Batman was born. The first truth of Batman...The saving grace. I was never alone. I had help."

“a hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.”

Alfred: Death and chance stole your parents. But rather than become a victim, you have done everything in your power to control the fates. For what is Batman if not an effort to master the chaos that sweeps our world, an attempt to control death itself?