“There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.”

“But there were worse things than being left.”

“Here’s my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I’m sure about is I’m real ordinary. Yet I’ve had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.”

“There is no such thing as an ordinary life.”

“Generals are, as a matter of course, allowed to be far more idiotic than ordinary human beings are permitted to be.”

“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

“I don't work at being ordinary.”

“The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.”

“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others”

“If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men by a thick wall through which no sound could penetrate, then all understanding of the efforts of genius would be denied to ordinary men, and their works would fail to make any impression on them. All hopes of progress depend on this being untrue. And it is untrue. The difference between men of genius and the others is quantitative not qualitative, of degree not of kind.”