You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat