I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen, ' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.

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.

A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized.

Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.