Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

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