A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

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

It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

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

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.