He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

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

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.

That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

He didn’t recruit me, ” Cett pointed out. “I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco.”“I wish I cared enough to apologize, ” Elend said, staring at them.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

May the peace of God be with all people.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

Small to greater matters must give way.