If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.

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

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.

Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.

None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

I can walk around relatively anonymously.