Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

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.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

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.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

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?

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

I believe in spirits, not ghosts.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues.