I am who I am; no more, no less.

Rising to her feet, she shot the Bird Man a furious glare, and then stormed off toward Savidlin’s house. She was glad to be away from Richard, to be away from watching those girls pawing...

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don’t like.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

I’m afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can’t be corrected and it...

…you’ll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don’t understand. You don’t have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for...

Enemies,’ the wizard said, ‘are the price of honour.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don’t ever forget that.

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will...

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. – Richard Rahl

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don’t think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn’t pay to be sane.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

He put the box in Kahlan’s lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and...

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life...

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when...

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don’t value freedom until it is taken away.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement...

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action.All men have the right to live their own...

Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. “It works better with your clothes off.”Richard frowned. His voice came as a hoarse croak. “What?”She seemed mystified by the question. “I believe you will find...

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. “Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost...

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

…Wizard’s Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

…think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn’t think of how to win.

Bags!

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you’ve destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you’ve done your job, then there aren’t any...

He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin...

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Richard rubbed his temples. He had a headache from lack of sleep. “Don’t you understand? This isn’t about conquering lands and taking things from others; this is about fighting oppression.”The general rested a boot on...

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.