Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized

Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I’m truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can’t really put my finger on any huge impact she’s had.

There are things to be afraid of – like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I’ve experienced, and climate change, despots – but there’s really nothing to be afraid of when your job is an actor and you’re at work, if you’re in a place that is safe and full of respect and love, which we are.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms

There’s some ex-traordinary things in books,” said the mariner.

Sometimes a book isn’t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

I don’t think you can write a book that’s worth anything without extraordinary discipline.

You can’t hit a target you can’t see. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under strain is a totally extraordinary ballgame.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.

The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual – even redemptive – but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we’re told.

When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye

I didn’t know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

To join the top 1% you have to do what the 99% won’t.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.

Once You Have Tasted Flight You Will Walk the Earth With Your Eyes Turned Skyward.