"Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future."

“Money is a way of creating scarcity.”

“Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.”

“I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.”

“The beauty of playing together is meeting in the One.”

“Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.”

“The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.”

“... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.”

“What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.710, Macmillan