Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.

You can put the girl in a relationship..., " I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl, " Cassie finished.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Then let us go and be terrible.

We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available all the time!

It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

The more you ride the bike, the better it gets, and the more you know how to ride it.

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it.