"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."

"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."