Terry Goodkind
Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.Collection: Wizards
Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.Collection: Mean
no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.Collection: Army
Wizards First Rule: People are StupidCollection: Stupid
Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.Collection: Lucky
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.Collection: Wind
How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.Collection: Who I Am
Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.Collection: Understanding
Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.Collection: Hate
Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.Collection: Details
To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.Collection: Mean
But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.Collection: Faithful
People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.Collection: People
Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.Collection: Culture
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.Collection: Teaching
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.Collection: Motivation
Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.Collection: Doors
I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!Collection: Victory
Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.Collection: Reality
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 of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.Collection: Jobs
No amount of telling is worth doing it once.Collection: Amount
Bags, and Double Bags!" - ZeddCollection: Bags
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.Collection: Inspirational
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what’s happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.Collection: Stories
That’s what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.Collection: Strong