If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

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.

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.

Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.