To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

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.

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.

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.