I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It's really funny.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.- Breeze

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."She raised an eyebrow."Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.

Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

the life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

People need stories, child. They bring them hope, and that hope is real.

Hope in a lie—hope in me—is not true hope

What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue it after failure?

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days… What is belief—what is faith — if you don't continue in it after failure?

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?

As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.

I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Questions are soul of science

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.--Egwene al'Vere

But, for humans at large, knowledge usually equates to empathy, and empathy leads to understanding.