I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.

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.

Thanks be to God that, even though at times we may “forget” Him, He never forgets us.

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

I love you, Hermione,” said Ron.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.