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

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

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

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.

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

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

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