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

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.

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

I pulled out Riptide.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

Hold what you've got and hit them where you can.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.