Where his eyes should’ve been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Humans see what they want to see.

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The real world is where the monsters are.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

All definitions are the interpretations of contrasts. What is, helps define what it is not!

Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.