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

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

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

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon

Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey

The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you'll hear it.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?