“Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.”

“Percy: “You asked Poseidon for… me?” Tyson: "For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive." Percy: “But that’s so cruel!” Tyson: “Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes--" Percy: “The scars on your back?” Tyson: “Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I prayed to Daddy for help. Soon the people at Meriwether found me. Mey you. Biggest blessing ever. Sorry I said Poseidon was mean. He sent me a brother.”

“I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.”

“God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.”

“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”

“Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.”