"first things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be."

- in robert jordan's "lord of chaos"

"if you took risks, sometimes the bill came due when you least expected, in the last way you expected."

- in robert jordan's "lord of chaos"

"he was no hero, and did not want to be one. heroes had a bad habit of getting killed. when you were a hero, it was toss the dog a bone and shove him into a corner out of the way, unless it was promise the dog a bone and send him out to hunt again."

- in robert jordan's "lord of chaos"

"it is always harder to abandon an alliance the world thinks you entered freely than one you can prove you were forced into. reckless haste leads to ruin."

- pedron niall, in robert jordan's "lord of chaos"

"there were always five things that needed doing immediately and ten that should have been done yesterday."

- in robert jordan's "lord of chaos"

"to be near the mighty, you must stand in their shade." - in robert jordan's "the fires of heaven"

"i will not allow you to make me less, to make my decisions less, by claiming responsibility for them." - birgitte, in robert jordan's "the fires of heaven"