Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

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.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

The important thing is to keep trying

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.