Terry Goodkind Quotes - Page 6

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

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

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

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd

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

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

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

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

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

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

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Wizards First Rule: People are Stupid

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

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

Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

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

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

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.

Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.