As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you’re alive.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men’s heads.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear’s mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn’t die?

Juilin,” she asked hesitantly, “what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly,” she added more quickly. “Just a general idea.” He looked at her for a moment. “I do...

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

People are people, low or high.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor...

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

Two days’ hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

I always say, 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.

Lan shook his head sightly “He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.

You’re bloody insane, Karede,” Mat said. “Unfortunately, so am I.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder.

Image perception makes a big difference. That’s one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff – that’s necessary. But the image that you...

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going...

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O’ the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the...

Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of...

One more dance along the razor’s edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

Dovie’andi se tovya sagain!

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

If you boys… you men can do what has to be done when you’d rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

I’ve seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

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

A man without trust might as well be dead.

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

I’ll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband,...

Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.

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...

A woman’s love can be violent.Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to.Sometimes, they’re even sorry afterwards.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

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.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

A beautiful battle is one you don’t have to fight

Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

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.

At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.