Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

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.

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

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.