"I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you’ve done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you."

"I lead no armies, Warder. I command nothing save myself, and not always that."

"When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back."

"Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know."

"At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying."

"A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides."

"Better to face the bear than run from it."

"When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back."

"A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling."

"If you don’t look for snakes, you cannot complain when one bites you."

"A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first."

"Not thinking about a thorn doesn’t make it hurt your foot less."

"A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty."

"The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps."

"We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right."

"We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is a darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her."

"The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind."

"That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered fondly."

"If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose."

"It seems to me that kings — and queens — can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they’re worse when they only remember what they are and forget who."

"Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man."

"A flapping tongue can put you in the net instead of the fish."

"Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind."

"I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration."

"If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant."

"Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change."

"A ship is alive, and he is like a man, with a true man’s heart. Treat him well and care for him properly, and he will fight for you against the worst sea. He will fight to keep you alive even after the sea has long since given him his own deathstroke. Neglect him, though, ignore the small warnings he gives of danger, and he will drown you in a flat sea beneath a cloudless sky."

"Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."

"It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line."

"A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom."

"You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man."

"You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen."

"For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon."

"As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women."

"You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long."

"No wine for me. Strange enough things happen when my head is clear. I want to know the difference."

"On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers."

"The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern."

"Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it."

"You read too much and understand too little."

"Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?"

"There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat."

"I expect a civil word for a civil word!"

"Men fight when they should run, and fools fight when they should run. But I had no need to say it twice."

"It is better to be the hammer than the nail."

"Nimble finger and nimble wits will take you a good deal further than a sword and muscles. Sharp eyes help as well, but fortunately, I have these things."

"To lead is neither to push or pull."

"The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you."

"Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves."