…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

I am compelled into this country.

A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.

When a lady accessorizes in here in Texas, she's selecting caliber, not color.

[H]e who fears to lose will never win.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.