The Blinding Knife - Pg 320

   "You haven't known me for three months, and you've just handed four great treasures into my hands. I could take them from you now and have you thrown out. I could buy myself a satrap's seat with what you've got. You think I'm immune? You think I'm too good a man to do that?" 

   "Yes, sir," Kip said.

   "But you don't know."

   "A man's got to act without knowing everything, or he'll never do anything,"

   Commander Ironfist's lip twitched. "So you're a man now?"

   "I've taken lives, and I've taken my own life in my hands and trusted a friend with it. Yes, sir, I'd say that makes me a man." 

   "Neither makes me a man. The first makes you a killer. The second makes you a fool. Either may get you killed."