Inheritance (Inheritance, #4)

by Christopher Paolini

The way of the warrior is the way of knowing. If that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. Pain and frustration will be your only reward if you try.

Empty your mind and allow it to become like a tranquil pool that reflects everything around it and yet remains untouched by its surroundings. Understanding will come to you in that emptiness, when you are free of irrational fears about victory and defeat, life and death.

The warrior who can adapt the easiest to the unexpected is the warrior who will live the longest.

“The world is round,” he whispered. “The sky is hollow and the world is round.”

If only everyone could see what we have seen, perhaps there would be less fighting in the world. You cannot expect wolves to become sheep. No, but neither do the wolves have to be cruel to the sheep.

Language alters your mind in ways that are hard to explain.

Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”

“When you teach them—teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.”