The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will... - Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand if one studied it closely enough."

"Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper."

"Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident."

"In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes.To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies.Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark,Else upon your mind they'll place a mark;Do not listen to the shadows of the deep,Else they haunt you even when you sleep."

"He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while."