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

“The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.”

“They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.”

“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”

“Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?”

“If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change”

“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”