This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

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

May you find courage in every circumstance.

Wisdom of the Ages "The Marshawn" US Army's new main battle tank. Runs over enemies instead of shooting them. Biggest expense: maintaining the dreadlocks hanging off the turret.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

Profitability is where the country grows and everybody rises up with it.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.