“Be an ordinary person with extraordinary heart”

“Be silent in your anger, be silent in your sadness, be silent in your happiness till the time calms your mood”

“I'd rather be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things, than being an extraordinary person doing ordinary things.”

“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.”

“If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.”

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