People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.

As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.

It never rains but it pours.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.