/Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.
-Robert Jordan The Eye of the World
A sword is dangerous to the man at the point, but not to the man at the hilt. Unless the man holding the sword is a fool, or careless, or unskilled, in which case it is twice as dangerous to him as to everyone else.
-Robert Jordan The Great Hunt
Always plan for the worst; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant
ones.
-Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn
A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash and the hardest to keep
leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.
-Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest
difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never
forget.
-Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn
Better ten days of love than years of regretting.
-Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn
Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
-Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
-Robert Jordan The
Fires of Heaven
Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
-Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven