"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."

"Better ten days of love than years of regretting."

"A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me." "And what would you have done differently?" "Just kick me!"

"I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder."

"If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow."

"One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills."

"Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes."

"Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result."

"Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do."

"...but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself."

"Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die."

"Do you know how to unite the people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?"

"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."

"Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes."

"Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain."

"Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices."

"A man’s word must be as good as an oath sworn beneath the Light or it was no good at all."

"By the Creator at the moment of creation. May we shelter safe beneath the Light, in the Creator’s hand."

"Only the dead could afford oblivion."

"What could not be changed must be endured."

"At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought."

"The more tragic things get, the more I feel like laughing."

"[Aviendha] didn't trust change. It couldn't be spotted or stabbed; it was more silent than any scout, more deadly than any assassin. No, she'd never trust it, but she would accept it."

"We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long is it turns...."

"How was he to cause war, as the prophecies say he must? How was he to break the nations and bind them to him? How could he 'slay his people with the sword of peace' or 'bind the nine moons to serve him' if he was locked away? Do the prophecies say that he will be 'unfettered'? Do they not speak of the 'chaos of his passing'? How can anything pass at all if he is kept in chains?"

"Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot."

"The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps. He must know pain of heart. He must know frustration, and he must know anguish. Bring these to him. And you will be rewarded."

"Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin.""

"Let the lord of chaos rule."

"There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows."

"To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done."

"The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead."

"I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool."

"Men! When you cannot win an argument, you either run away or resort to force."

"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."