America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.