Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

Stick to love

Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human!

You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.