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

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

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