“Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.”
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“The impression that what is extraordinary is real, and that the real is the extraordinary.”
“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”
“you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.”