Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down.

Any story worth telling is worth embellishing.

I never let anybody get out of there a winner.

1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory.

Percy scowled. "I-I know you."Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?

Every sin provokes its punishment.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.