Books:
The Lord of the Rings, Calvin & Hobbes, the Tao de Ching, the Torah, most sci-fi and fantasy (as long as its not the modern prepackaged kind). Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, C.S. Lewis... The kind of authors that are WORTH stealing from.
Heroes:
J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, the Baal Shem Tov, Mordechai Anielewicz (leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, WWII), Lao Tsu, Yoda