If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

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.

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

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

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.

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

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