This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

The fewer the words, the better you’re heard!

If you don’t leave your job, your job will leave you someday

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.