There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.

Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes.

Annabeth: Hey, Seaweed Brain. Percy: Will you stop calling me that? Annabeth: You know you love it.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.