Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

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.

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

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

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies