Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.
The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
I don't see any point in nihilism. . . just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.