So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."

Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

You won’t know your limits until you soar high and give it a try.

Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.