"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."

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

"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."

"Death rides on my shoulder, death walks in my footsteps. I am death."

"The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity."

"If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead."

"Nothing ever goes as you expect. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing."

"Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever."

"When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved."

"A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing."

"You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone."

"What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love."

"Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Let the dead rest, and care for the living."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"There are things worth fighting for."

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

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

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

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

"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!"

"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."

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

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

"You always had to pay the butcher."

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

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

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."

"Whatever can be done, can be undone."

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

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

"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."

"The weak must be bold cautiously."

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

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

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

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