Quotes by Robert Jordan

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”

“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

“What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren’t dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret.”“Ila was giving me advice on be...”

“Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”

“Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.”

“Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us ...”

“You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.”

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”

“Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust...”

“If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.”

“A man without trust might as well be dead.”

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into ...”

“Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he sea...”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

“A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight”