‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

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?

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

Love is basic of success.

Try to accept each other for what you are and don't point out the fact that the hair he's losing on his head is now growing out of his nose - and his ears.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.

You would be surprised how many people are in the market not to make money but for the thrill of it!

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.