Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.