“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”

“There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss the point. Part of the legacy of people like Ella Baker and Septima Clark is a faith that ordinary people who learn to believe in themselves are capable of extraordinary acts, or better, of acts that seem extraordinary to us precisely because we have such an impoverished sense of the capabilities of ordinary people.”

“Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.”

“Ordinary people with commitments can make an extraordinary impact in their world”

“Ordinary people who walk with an extraordinary God of grace and power, really can make a difference in other as yet unreached lives.”

“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.”