The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them." -Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)