Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

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

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

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

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

It’s not a lie, ” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

There is always the need to carry on.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.