He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's e... - Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

"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."

"Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident."

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

"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."

"It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments."