Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

You're a sword not a palm tree

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.