The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)

by Robert Jordan

Why did you have to keep doing something just because it had always been done that way?

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

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

“If you watch the wolf too hard,” she muttered, “a mouse will bite you on the ankle.”

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

It was easier to be brave, he discovered, when someone needed your protection.

“A tool made for a purpose is not demeaned by being used for that purpose,”