Tom Balmes

“That's why your lot in life isn't fate. I don't have any say in much of my life, but I make whatever choices I can make in my own rational best interest. It's my choice to fix those stairs and make the place I live a little better instead of whining and waiting and hoping for someone else to do something for me. I have pride that I know how to do that for myself.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I’m finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith Of The Fallen