‘Honor’ is a word applied to the actions of men from the past who have had their lives scrubbed clean by historians. - Brandon Sanderson

An army was the sort of thing everyone wanted to have, so long as it was off doing important things elsewhere.

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?

I shouldn’t be so hard on our neighbors. They’re petty, yes, but it’s the pettiness of the ignorant. I’m not disgusted by them. I’m disgusted by the one who manipulates them.