Robert Jordan on Life

"I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did."

"Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."

"Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I."

"The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death."

"You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen."

"Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves."

"You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die."

"The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy."

"Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it."

"What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?"

"Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever."

"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."

"Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die."

"A man who will not die to save a woman is no man."

"The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity."

"Let the dead rest, and care for the living."

"We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long is it turns...."