Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.
I wonder if, Nynaeve said, we sometimes put the White Tower —as an institution— before the people we serve. I wonder if we let it become a goal in itself, instead of a means to help us achieve greater...
He was a soldier. He was a shepherd. He was a beggar, and a king. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter. He was born, lived, and died Aiel. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, acc...
Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.
I can't understand herwell son, you might as well try to understand the sun
When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That...
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.
Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strin...
It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked.What weight? Rand replied.That lost hand you've been carrying.Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.
I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her...
Great diggings and foundations spread across what had been the Warders’ practice yard, tall wooden cranes and stacks of cut marble and granite. Masons and laborers swarmed over the workings like ants,...
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
Egwene remembered her pity for poor Meidani. No sister should be treated in such a way. Imprisonment was one thing. But beating a woman down, toying with her, hinting at the torture to come? It was in...
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.'That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a...
The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.