“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”
“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives”
“It's a quiet revolution begun by ordinary people with the stuff of our daily lives.”
“Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name.”
“But to judge some people impartially we must renounce certain preconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary people about us.”