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.

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?

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

Our voices, our service, and our abilities are to be employed, primarily, for the glory of God.

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes

I dont care to be involved in the crash-landing unless I can be in on the take-off.

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot.