The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

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

Confrontation is not bad. Goodness is supposed to confront evil.

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.