He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

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.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand