Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.

You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.