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

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

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

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.

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

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

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