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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

...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.

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

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

I wish people had half the honor of dragons.

Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

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

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

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

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

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

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

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

It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

I’m warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don’t slay me with your magic sword!

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime." -Kahlan Amnell

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara