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

Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.

The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.

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

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.

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