Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

My feet is my only carriage.

Look where we stand in the world on education. We're at the bottom of the list. So it's obviously not working.

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

Its nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

To be and not to be, that is the answer.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.