Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
You must surrender before you can guide.
Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
A man’s dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.
Better ten days of love than years of regretting.
Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result.
I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.
It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
There are things worth fighting for.
We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
Once you catch a disease and survive, you can’t get it again.
It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid.
Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him – in detail – all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair.