I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balder.

— Robert Jordan

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

— Robert Jordan

In Shinier, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollops and Myrdal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

— Robert Jordan

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

— Robert Jordan

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.-Robert Jordan (The eye of the world, Wheel of time)

— Robert Jordan

Jilin," 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 than I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan