Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

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?

One of the critical factors that make people’s dreams become nightmares is that they don’t know there is a cost to be paid!

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

It's your thoughts behind the words you speak that create your attitude.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.