Quotes from Terry Goodkind

My past is my story to keep, and my future will be written by me, in my own way, not through the control or influence of you or anyone else.

It was a refined sort of bottled fury that had the potential to be devastatingly violent, and yet at the same time he was also a man able to control it.

all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to lose sight of the things that mattered, and to understand why they mattered.

When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.

I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us.

Each day lived, Richard said, is one less of our limited number of days gone forever. Time therefore has relevance and meaning to us. Life is precious, so time is precious. Time is how we put value on things such as love. We give our most precious commodity, our time-a part of our lives-over to those we love.

That is what we believe in and what we are fighting for. The right to the joy of life. The right to our own life. The right to love.

If we timidly submit to tyranny, we will never have the chance to test our wings.

Only when all must bow to the same law is every person free.

Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.

Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.

If you regain your senses, come see me, I will teach you how." - Cara

Everything about him: the way he shot an arrow; the way he carved; the way he used a sword; even the way he walked with such fluid reasoned intent—they weren't separate things, separate abilities…they were all the same thing.

My brother always says that real power is not brokered in public.

You are not destined for anything. You make your own destiny.

Even a good person can be swept up with the sentiments of a crowd and come to hold perverse beliefs.

Since the dawn of man, there have always been people bent on harming others. There have been periods of peace and enlightenment, and there have been dark times, but through it all, mankind survived. That cycle has repeated itself over and over. It wasn't always easy, and despite those who would have it otherwise, life went on.

It never failed to amaze her how simply saying something, no matter how untrue, was all it took to convince a large number of people of what you wanted them to believe.

Trouble sires three children.

Then you understand the wide range of the totally new and unexpected creations they can sometimes come up with. Most people's minds travel along the same road traveled by everyone else, never straying off the route of conventional wisdom. Makers know no such boundaries. They have a rare ability to make their own roads of thought. Their minds venture through the wilderness of all that exists, combining random bits of knowledge in ways that have never been imagined before.

Willfully turing aside from the truth is treason to one's self

She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.

If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.

It's so good to see you," she whispered privately in the midst of the crowd. When she held him, there was no crowd, there was only him. There was always only him in her heart and soul.