Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

"Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads."

"Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose."

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

"Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice."

"In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so."

"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."

"Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won."

"I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."

"Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again."