Quotes

Somebody has to start, son. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

Life without design is erratic.

If you were to overthrow the lighteyes and place yourselves in power, abuses would still happen. They d just happen to other people.

“I can’t decide if it’s dishonest or not.” “It’s not dishonest; it’s business.”

Death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others which is why it is not an end.

A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.”

If you’re going a thousand miles an hour, if you see everything as a problem to be solved, what kind of life is that? Especially in a world where time once past can never be recovered, where everything is so fleeting, it’s a terrible shame...

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”

In every situation, you can find a better story to tell yourself about the person who cut you off in traffic, about the cashier in the checkout line you’re stuck in, about the email you still haven’t gotten a reply to, about the player who...

“If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.”

To Marcus the true measure of his wealth was that whenever he saw someone in need of help, he could provide it. Moreover, that wealth afforded him a unique luxury: he would never have to ask for such a favor in return.

The things that others have always seem better than what you have.

...life deals out unexpected joys and sorrows, and we can but treasure or suffer each.

We are wrong to think that death is ahead of us. Much of our life has already passed. The years we have lived so far are in death's hands.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.”