Quotes from Terry Goodkind

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Deserve Victory

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.

Bags, and Double Bags! - Zedd

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.

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.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

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

Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

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

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.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

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