It's one of my inventions-a shampoo, " Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.

It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

Fear will keep you from accomplishing your dreams.

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

No matter how tired or stressed you are, just by getting dressed and rolling your sleeves up, you can accomplish almost anything.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.