In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

— Terry Goodkind

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

— Terry Goodkind

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

— Terry Goodkind

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

— Terry Goodkind

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

— Terry Goodkind

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

— Terry Goodkind

Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.

— Terry Goodkind

Life is not about fulfilling a destiny. Your life has no destiny but what you make of it. And this is what I want to make of it. Barracks also told me to live the life that only I can live. He told me to have the courage to take up that calling. He was asking me to choose my destiny. Prophecy is not only about destiny, but the balance of free will. Becoming a Confessor is my calling. But it's not pre-ordained. It's a chance, a fork in the road of my life. I have to have the courage to take it on of my free will. In that way, the balance of prophecy and free will is the magic of the future.

— Terry Goodkind

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rail

— Terry Goodkind

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

— Terry Goodkind