It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

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

Humans see what they want to see.

Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

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

I think kids will read more good books than we can produce.

Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there.

Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.

Getting something and having the wits to use it... are two different things.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

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

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.