The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

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.

I love you, " I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move.""Because of her?"I nodded.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

But in a game, you have a pocket forming, your vision is better and - at least for me - I just get a better feel for what I'm doing.

I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.