“Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.”

“If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.”

“You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.”

“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”

“If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”

“How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.”

“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”