I ain't grouchy, ” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

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.

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

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.

In the world we live, we don’t create or destroy- we just convert entities from one form to another. Loss and Sorrow too. If these are growing in your life- remember you are feeding them.

Living in the shadows is cold... know this before you go living there.

Music is the child of prayer the companion of religion.

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

Fear is the friction in all transitions.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.