Good men don't become legends, " he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

It is a time of change, '' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.