The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.