What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

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?

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters.

What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.