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.
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry.
Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.
Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.
Better to die than to live in fear.
I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.
It never struck me as interesting that I didn’t go to school – we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they’re the others, the separate ones.
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
I am not who I was, but I know who I am.
Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.
Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.
I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.
Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. – Valdr.
It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe.
I refuse to repent, and I won’t plague myself over what is done and past.
For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me.
Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.