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

“You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”

“I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.”

“Wizard's Ninth RuleA contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.”

“Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.”

“There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.”

“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”