To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Live your life, it will leave you behind.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.