When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

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

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

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

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

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

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

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Once you say “I can’t”, you suppress the left over passion in you. But you say “I can”, you spark your inner power to make it happen. You can!

Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

I think writing is one of the toughest things.

Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.