"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the third age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long past, a wind rose in [a location]. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning."
— Opening Narration of each book
"Death is lighter than a feather; duty heavier than a mountain."
— A saying from the Borderlands
"How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can."
— Rand
"He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone."
Perrin: Nobody tells us how to be men, we just are.
Egwene: That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.
— The Eye of the World
"There was one rule above all others for being a man: whatever comes, face it on your feet."
— Lan, The Great Hunt
"You remind me of my uncle Huan. No one could ever pin him down. He liked to gamble, too, and he’d much rather have fun than work. He died pulling children out of a burning house. He wouldn’t stop going back as long as there was one left inside. Are you like him, Mat? Will you be there when the flames are high?"
— Siuan Sanache, The Dragon Reborn
"Almost dead yesterday. Maybe dead tomorrow. But alive, gloriously alive today."
— Mat, The Fires of Heaven
"If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it."
— Rand, Winter's Heart
"Let us die for what we believe, and do not try to steal that from us. You have embraced your death. Embrace mine."
— Egwene, A Memory of Light
"The wind blew southward, through knotted forests, over shimmering plains and toward lands unexplored. This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending."
— Epilogue, A Memory of Light
