He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon

Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey

Be true to your word and your work and your friend.

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.

Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.