Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

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.

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

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

People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.