This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship!

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.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.