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.

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

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

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

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

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