Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

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