If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a unique, different, and well-thought-out fantasy world, with a few nifty twists as well.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.