Terry Goodkind

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

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.

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.

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

...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 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.

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

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 don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.

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.

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 go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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

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

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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

That__ the worst part, that so many would not value their own unique abilities, not value themselves, much less respect those who have fought and died so that they could live free to make the choice to surrender that precious right of choice __ong with their gift and individuality.__he gripped the blanket in a fist. __ often think that the y deserve everything they__e going to get. I only regret that those of us who value what we have will suffer the same fate. They__e the ones I fight for. The rest of them be damned.__lex swallowed at the pain so clearly evident in her voice. __e have people like that in our world, too. People who say that freedom is no longer practical, that we must surrender it for a greater common good.___ear them,_ she whispered. __hey are the heart of evil. They tolerate tyranny, excuse it, compromise with it. In doing so they always bring savagery and death upon the rest of us.

Information is the coin of war.

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

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

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