I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.

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

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Understanding breeds empathy.

The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

My kids are funny. They won't eat the heels on a loaf of bread. So I patiently explained to them that they eat rolls, and rolls are all crust, just like heels...and now they won't eat rolls!

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.