Quotes by Terry Goodkind

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

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

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.

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

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 to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling.He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

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

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

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.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who dont question, who dont even know how to question. For most people, its not the truth that is important, its the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.

Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.

...youll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you dont understand. You dont have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

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

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 itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

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 of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

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

Richard looked up at the beautiful, big pines spreading over them, illuminated in the firelight. A spark of understanding lit in his mind. He saw the branches stretched out with murderous intent in a years-long struggle to reach the sunlight and dispatch its neighbors with its shade. Success would give space for its offspring, many of which would also shrivel in the shade of the parent. Several close neighbors of the big pine were withered and weak, victims all. It was true. The design of nature was success by murder.

...Wizards Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

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

When the whole world is crazy, it doesnt pay to be sane.