Quotes by Terry Goodkind

The only soveriegn we can allow to rule us is reason.

Being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand.  The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant.  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.

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

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

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

Wizard's Second Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason.

When Kahlan first told me about the history of the three lands, she said the council had taken actions that had made the death of a wizard's wife and daughter at the hands of a quad stand for nothing, and as punishment the wizard did the worst thing possible to them: he left them to suffer the cosequences of their own actions.

   "Sometimes if a trick is done properly, it can be better than magic.  In fact, I would go so far as to say a good trick is real magic."
   "But still, it was just a trick."
   The wizard held up a finger, "Results, Richard.  That's what counts.  Your way, those men would have all lost their heads."