There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

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

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

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.

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.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.