Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

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?

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.