I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. “Food!” It was terrifying, man.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.