Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.