“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”

“I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.”

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.”

“Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.”

“In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”

“We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.”

“It strikes me that religion seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perh...”

“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity a...”

“Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Emb...”