What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

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

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