Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

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?

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

The eye is to light as the soul is to God.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

A woman who writes feels too much.

I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.