Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

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

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

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.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

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

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