I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong plac

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.

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.

We live but a fraction of our lives.

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.