Sword of Truth

""Oh, but how I do love it when men I respect marry smart women. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence." — Annalina "Ann" Aldurren"

""'Profit' is a dirty word only to the leeches of the world. They want it seen as evil, so they can more easily snatch what they did not earn." — Victor"

""We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less." — Kahlan Amnell"

""Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." — 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." — Zedd"

""Nothing is ever easy." — Zedd"

""Think of the solution, not the problem." — Richard"

""When you are out numbered, and the situation is hopeless, you have no option--you must attack." — The Adventures of Bonnie Day"

""There is an old women's proverb, maybe you have heard it before. 'Never let a beautiful woman pick your path when there is a man in her line of sight.'" — Kahlan"

""Fate does not seek our consent." — Zedd"

""The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking." — Zedd"

""I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends." — Zedd"

""My father taught me something very much like that. He said, 'Don't shed tears for those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there. There will be time enough, then.'" — Kahlan"

""Youth. Youth holds much hope, but not much wisdom. I know the ways of people. Of men. He has been gone too long from my skirts. He will have long ago forgotten me, and found another." — Verna Sauventreen"

""'Third time tricked, marks the fool.'" — Richard"

""History is rarely made by reasonable men." — Zedd"

""Don't worry about what might be...Worry about what is." — Zedd"

""Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed." — Richard"

""Sometimes that's all life is: one desperate act after another." — Zedd"

""Only a fool walks into the future backwards." — Commander General Trimack"

""You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed." — Adie"

""People are stupid." — Zedd"

""One must observe before one acts, or more harm than help can be the result." — Drefan Rahl"

""Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey." — Zedd"

""In a land of blind people, a one-eyed woman could be queen." — Verna Sauventreen"

""There is magic in patience, you know." — Zedd"

""It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind." — Nathan Rahl"

""Sometimes, in madness resides genius." — Richard"

""Love is a passion for life shared with another person." — Nicci"

""Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." — Richard"

""Evil is not one large entity, but a collection of countless, small depravities brought up from the muck by petty men." — Richard"

""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." — Adie"

""It is the first responsibility of a friend to provide a shoulder to cry on." — Richard"

""Cut. Once committed to fight, Cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides this one. Cut." — Richard"

""Only those you trust can betray you." — Nathan Rahl"

""Nathan said that sometimes prophecy overwhelms our attempts to outwit it, and that sometimes we think we are more clever than we are, believing we can stay the hand of fate, if we wish it hard enough." — Kahlan"

""Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death." — Richard"

""Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it." — Richard"

""Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light." — Richard"

""Breathe." — Sliph"

"“As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.” — Richard"

""Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable. Look at a drunk, a slave to liquor, who thinks us cruel for trying to to get him abandon his slavery." — Ann"

""Sometimes people choose evil because it suits them or because they're afraid, or because they think they will get something for themselves out of it." — Kahlan"

""Man is the only creature who willingly submits to the fangs of a predator." — Richard"

""Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character." — Richard"

"Nicci looked up at Kahlan. 'Knives are not my talent.It's not hard,' Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. 'When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.'"

""If anything goes wrong, you die first." - Richard"

""Bags, woman, shall I tell them that it would be rather inconvenient for them to attack right now and to please come back to kill us later?" — Zedd, to Verna"

""'If we all knew each other's secrets, it would prove a very strange world. Besides, it would take all the fun out of the telling of them.' His thin lips widened in a smile, his eyes sparkled. 'But I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.'" — Zedd"

"[Richard] remembered what people always said, 'Trouble sires three children,' and knew immediately that he didn't want to meet the third child."