“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

“A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.”

“Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.”

“In a way, it was destiny.”

“I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”

“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”