"You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway."

"Any day you wake up, maybe you die."

"We are dead men. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are."

"I thought I could build, I was wrong. We are not builders, not you, or I, or the other one. We are destroyers. Destroyers."

"A man who trusts everyone is a fool, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough."

"I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did."

"I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad."

"I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard."

"The dead are never silent."

"When a woman plays the fool, look for the man. That was one of Lini's favorites. Another was, Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both."

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

"The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least."

"It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you."

"Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh."

"The weak must be bold cautiously."

"When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in."

"What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?"

"A jealous wife is like a hornets’ nest in your mattress."

"Whatever can be done, can be undone."

"Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon."

"If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know."

"Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness."

"You always had to pay the butcher."

"The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel."

"Honor? Maybe they're letting him sleep on silk, but a prisoner is still a prisoner."

"I always thought the stole weighed about as much as three good men. The Amyrlin has few easy decisions to make, and fewer where she can be sure. Do what you must, and pay the price if you’re wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too."

"I will use anybody I must. You said it yourself; I am who I am. And I'm using myself up, Perrin, because I have to. Just like I'll use anybody I have to. We don't have a choice anymore. Not me, not you, not anybody!"

"Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten."

"Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three."

"If you pursue two hares, both will escape you."

"You cannot tell a man he has the power to make the earth shake, then expect him to walk small."

"There are things worth fighting for."

"If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong."

"Men always say they didn't mean it that way. You would think they spoke a different language."

"We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect."

"We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her crosswise, or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake."

"If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs."

"Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often."

"By the look of you, Nynaeve, I could almost think you were angry, but I know you have such a sweet disposition people ask you to dabble your fingers in their tea."

"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."