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

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

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

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

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.

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

What you do now will be in the past right after you do it.

It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.

It's Coke, my man. You really think I'm going to let you pour any more alcohol into your body tonight?

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

After all, the world is still great.

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.