Terry Goodkind

"Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it."

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."

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

"Only those you trust can betray you."

"I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way."

"...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. 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."

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

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

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."

"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 lives around us. 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."