You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

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

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.