Don't decide yet, " Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.

And you, Percy, are my favorite son.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan

The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.