I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

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?

Nature is a divine art.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

It isn't just what you know, and it isn't just who you know. It's actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Sometimes you just get burnt out with fashion.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.