Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

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

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

It takes more than one individual to make a team.

Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!

We make our lives complicated to prove that we are very intelligent.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

The Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.