You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.

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.

The gift of faith causes a person to be bold and courageous, speaking things that be not as though they were, it is shameless and persistent it alway get results....

As long as you are alive and in your right senses, there are no excuses not to continuously learn and grow.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that.

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.