"My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter."

"Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."

"There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet."

"There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.""

"It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done."

"Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I."

"Here, southlander, you can't quit while you are winning. Better than when I'm losing."

"Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is."

"In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different."

"Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time."

"It isn't swords or brawn we need now," Nynaeve said, "but brains. Men usually think with the hairs on their chests." She touched her chest absently, as if feeling for something through her coat. "Most of them do."

"Perrin ran a hand through his hair. The more he found out about kings, the less he liked them."

"A pig painted gold is still a pig."

"An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth she speaks, may not be the truth you think you hear."

"Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."

"Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute."

"The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men. And women."

"I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all."

"When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman."

"The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death."

"The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying."

"The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie."

"Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are."

"You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way."

"Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it."

"What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads."

"Weep for what is lost forever."

"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes."

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."

"Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man."

"A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush."

"Let the dead rest, and care for the living."

"Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after."

"When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough."

"Let most men have a finger, and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan chief have a finger, and he will have the entire arm."

"The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it."

"Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others."

"What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love."

"You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone."

"A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing."

"When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved."

"Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever."

"Nothing ever goes as you expect. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing."

"If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead."

"The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity."

"Death rides on my shoulder, death walks in my footsteps. I am death."

"The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you."