I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

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?

We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.

You draw on whatever’s relevant to the part you’re playing; it makes it more personal.

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.