"Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won."

"Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain."

"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?"

"Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope."

"In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so."

"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."

"A secret spoken finds wings."

"Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave."

"Death comes to us all, we can only choose how to face it when it comes."

"I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run."

"Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it."

"But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."

"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."

"Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time."

"Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three."

"I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not."

"Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible."

"Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then."

"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer."

"When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown."

"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."

"They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel."

"If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land."

"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder."

"Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women."

"Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."

"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."

"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes."

"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."

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

"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."

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow."

"Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when."

"I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be."

"Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble."

"Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.Trust is the color of death.Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,for I must bear the burden alone.Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.Trust is the sound of death."

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

"Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes."

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

"If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know."

"You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long."

"Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads."

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