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.

Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, “When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he searched his...

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.” “That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he’s nothing but a horseholder....

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

The only rules he wanted to remember were “never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars” and “never gamble without knowning a back way out

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In...

Time to toss the dice

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

A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. “He does not look so mighty lying there,” he said wonderingly. “He does not look so much greater than me.

Sene sovya caba’donde ain dovienya

And yet many of us do it without families,” Nynaeve said. “Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk...

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

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

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.