Music:
Anything
Movies:
Kill Bill, Budo The Art of Killing,and Fighter in the Wind.
Television:
Dont watch TV.
Books:
MUSASHI, Book of 5 Rings, Japanese Death Poems, The Essential Haiku (Basho, Buson, and Issa), The Unfettered Mind, The Life Giving Sword, and other books about the path to the Way.
Heroes:
How can one become the greatest if he sees one other being higher than himself? We should seek to surpass those before us always.