The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest gr... - Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

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

"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."

"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."

"He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while."

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