One part brave, three parts fool! - Christopher Paolini

"Kira fixed Trig with a look. "Hey. What do you call a really smart newt?"
He grinned. "What?"
"Newton, of course."
"Permission to jettison both of them as punishment, Captain?" said Nielsen."

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'...
'And I won't give up.

The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can’t change.” Falconi paused, his eyes hard and glittering. “Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn’t do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you’ll never be able to fully recover.