Brandon Sanderson

The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says similar groups have done in the past.

That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again

Then you'll forgive an old man's curiosity?

She felt like drawing this scene, but knew it was the type of moment she couldn’t capture on a page. It wasn’t about content or composition, but the pleasure of living.
The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.

They all stretched farther and farther until they collapsed. In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, 'This is good. This is what I wanted,' and gone home?

But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you help them, the more likely they were to crack.

Not so crude then, if it almost killed him.

Who cares what your ancestors did, when the enemy is trying to kill you right now?

Shallan smiled at the wonderful surroundings, the light rainfall, the beautiful plant life. A little dampness was a small price to pay for the melodious sound of sprinkling rain, for fresh clean air and a beautiful sky full of clouds that varied in every shade of grey.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it?
It’s the next one.

You seem to have found purpose in talkin' a whole bunch

She’d had so much more time when she was younger. She couldn’t help thinking she’d wasted much of it.

I know full well how to have a good time.

Kaladin turned to Moash. “Why do they treat us so, Moash? Because they know they should be better than they are. Because they see discipline in bridgemen, and it embarrasses them. Rather than bettering themselves, they take the easier road of jeering at us.”