Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

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.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

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

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

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.