Robert Jordan

"I lead no armies, Warder. I command nothing save myself, and not always that."

"I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you’ve done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you."

"Better to try understanding the sun than a woman."

"Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path."

"If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."

"Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars."

"Never gamble without knowing a back way out."

"I can rest when I’m dead."

"The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse."

"The fox often offers the duck its pond."

"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."

""Wish" and "want" trip the feet, but "is" makes the path smoother."

"I will see you tonight. Or I will see you dead."

"I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again."

"It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down."

"I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that."

"Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn’t worth the trouble."

"If you are not mine, then you are dead."

"Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long."

"There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it."

"It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff."

"The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule."

"A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey."

"The best way to apologize to a man is to trip him in a secluded part of the garden."

"Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked."

"The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death."

"Victors write history."

"Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker."

"A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife."

"Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything."

"Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours."

"No man should have another man's voice in his head."

"An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you."

"What can’t be changed must be endured."

"The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining."

"We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often."

"What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie."

"If I could find a way to escape my destiny, do I deserve to?"

"We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more."

"Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me."

"A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her."

"There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it."

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

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

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

"You must surrender before you can guide."

"If wishes were wings, pigs would fly."

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

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

"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."