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 f… - Christopher Paolini

May your swords stay sharp -Brom

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.