Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep.