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

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.