I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon

The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

Into the sky to win or die.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

Every experience is enduring adventure.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.