“Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.”

“Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.”

“Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.”

“As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. 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.”

“How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.”

“Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.”

“...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.”