I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.