The truth has value.

— Terry Goodkind

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

— Terry Goodkind

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

— Terry Goodkind

This was the threshold to the place of the dead.

— Terry Goodkind

Thunder without sound jolted the surrounding air. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.

— Terry Goodkind

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the surrounding lives. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

— Terry Goodkind

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

— Terry Goodkind

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

— Terry Goodkind

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

— Terry Goodkind

Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Barracks had great meaning on things having to do with magic.

— Terry Goodkind