It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.