I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.

my subconscious so full it must spill over

Think about it. If I say to you, "Oh! I wrote a 500-page book on that!" Don’t your eyebrows go up?

Trust your own reason and your own logic, not your own media!

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.