It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

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.

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.