“There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.”
“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”
“I'd rather be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things, than being an extraordinary person doing ordinary things.”
“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”
“No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!”
“If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!”