But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.

I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.

What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

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

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.