Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.

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.

She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.