Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Should and would build no bridges.