“What an extraordinary achievement. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. What a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.”

“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”

“Fireflies remind me of that no matter how big the troubles may be, a small lamp of hope can dispel darkness. It doesn't matter if you are small, but what matters is your belief in yourself.”

“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”

“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”

“We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.”

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”

“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”

“What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

“Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.”