“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.”

“Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.'That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.”

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

“Once he had a grove of oaks chopped down because they were looking at him. And then insisted that they would be given decent funerals; he gave the orations. Do you have any idea how longs it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?”

“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.”

“The one time Egwene had protested that Elyas was the one who wanted to go around hills and he should not blame them, it got her a lecture on how sound carried, delivered in a growl that could have been heard a mile off.”

“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”