I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially...
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
Love powers my heart and color powers my soul.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...