“so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.”

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”

“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don’t necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”

“To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.”

“X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.”

“Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.”

“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”

“Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.”

“I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.”

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”