Famous quotes by Terry Goodkind:

"The first law of reason is what exists, exists;what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principleall knowledge is build. He said that was the foundation from which life is embraced. He said thinking is a choice, and that wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means to discover them. Richard said reason is our only way of grasping reality - that it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking - to reject reason - but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see."

"Every person's life is theirs by right. An individuals life can and must only belong to himself, no to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man's throat and dictate how he must live his life. No society is more important than the individuals who compose it, or else you ascribe supreme importance, not to man, but to any notion that strikes the fantasy of that society at a never ending cost of lives. Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindles wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters."

"The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true....or being afraid it is."

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

"Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight."

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

"No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side"

"The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know. A wise person doesn't string together the beads of unrelated events into a necklace simply to have something they wish to see. A wise person sees the truth even if it is something unexpected. That is the most beautiful necklace to wear - the truth."

"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."

""The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways." "This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.""

"If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?"

"After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe."

"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"

"They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat."

"Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story."

"I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'."

"I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step."

"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine."

"No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side."

"The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is."