Quotes from Robert Jordan

Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.

The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.

Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both.

A woman forgives but never forgets, A man forgets but never forgives

Uncomplicated men assumed others to have uncomplicated motivations

A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you're dancing at the moment is always the most fun. Wouldn't you say?

Whatever the Dark One wants, I oppose, so hear this and know it true. Before I let the Dark One have you, I will destroy you myself.

You never could tell what a man would do when he was drunk, even if that man was your own self.

A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night . . .

Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.

Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.

Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that.

You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!

Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing.

Burn me, Mat said, throwing on the shirt he dug out of the bundle. I'll give you a hundred Tar Valon marks if you do it, just so I can tell the story.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn't all right to let them make you like they are.

We have almost always been linked, Brigitte told Nynaeve without taking her eyes from Cain's. He is usually born well before me--so I know my time approches again when I cannot find him--and I usually hate him at first sight in the flesh. But we nearly always end lovers or wed. A simple story, but I think we have spun it out in a thousand variations.

As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.

There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.

There was nothing a woman would not tell you if you kissed her enough.