You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.

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.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Please beware, " came his reply, "There are a lot of people who believe that just because we don't have an explanation for something, it's quantum mechanics.

Loving God is a play scenario written in the spirit of men

I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.