Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet the challenge of living in balance with the sacred elements.

Love has glints of light that wake up our heart to feel the beauty of life.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.