Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

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?

Do not seek to be known as honorable or courageous. Simply as true. It is then you will surely be known as them both.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

An evil life is a kind of death.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.