Vayoo ansha.”I shook my head and whispered, “Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore.”**

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take.

That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

You got one life, never use it just to breathe.

It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.

We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

I'm not going to work in a place where I can't eat donuts.

Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.

Love and seek for knowledge.

Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music