“It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.”

“If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!”

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

“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”

“People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.”

“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”