I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck, ” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

It’s not a lie, ” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.

I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.