A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

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.

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!