What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

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

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.