"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."

"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."

"What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want."

"You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die."

"The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy."

"How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne], and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power."

"A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know."

"What you need isn’t always what you want."

"If wishes were wings, pigs would fly."

"You must surrender before you can guide."

"The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you."

"A man without trust might as well be dead."

"First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be."