The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
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“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”
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road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.
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no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method. The
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Living is harder than dying.
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Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”
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Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means. Protecting ten innocents is not worth killing one.