You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

It is a time of change, '' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.