“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.”
“Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!”
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
“War grows out of ordinary human nature.”
“Sometimes that which seems ordinary is really most extraordinary of all.”
“What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.”