"But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."
— Terry Goodkind

""Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said.
"By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity"
"
— Victoria Hanley (The Seer and the Sword)

"Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain."
— Kabir (The Bijak of Kabir)

"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."
— Terry Goodkind

"This world has need of song and sword."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

"The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

"Dream Song:

The heavens
Go with me. "
— Frances Densmore (American Indians and Their Music)

"Song on Applying War Paint:

At the center of the earth
I stand,
Behold me!
At the wind center
I stand,
Behold me!
A root of medicine
Therefore I stand,
At the wind center
I stand. "
— Frances Densmore

"I was not weak; I did not cry. But it hurt me, more in a kind of refreshing, thrilling way, than a kind of pain that would cripple me and send me away crying. My fingernails dug into the palms of my hands, and my teeth bit into my lips, my knees were locked, but I could not faint."
— Alysha Speer (Sharden)

"I stood behind the man’s chair, my blade at his throat.
“Why do you do it?” I asked, knowing he wouldn’t answer. “Kill people, and blow up buildings, and sell drugs?”
It was what they all did. Committed crimes. That was why I killed them.
“You’re a criminal, a terrorist, a danger. And I have been asked to take you out.” I told him.
I was legend now, yet he asked the same question all the others did.
“What is your name?”
My sensitive ears tuned out the slit as my sword cut his neck.
I walked around the chair to see his face. I watched as his eyes–slowly at first–changed from blue to milky white. His skin went pale.
And as I heard him take his last breath, I ducked in so my lips hovered at his ear, and whispered, “My name, is Sharden.”"
— Alysha Speer (Sharden)

"He who sows discord in his own house will inherit the wind. Proverbs 11:19"
— Various (Holy Bible)

"Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it."
— Samuel Butler

"Who washes his hands of life
Says whatever he has in his heart. "
— Sa'di (The Gulistan of Sa'di)

""The pen is mightier than the sword.""
— Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course.

Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses.

Like wind. Like light.

Just this--on these expanses, on these heights."
— Dag Hammarskjöld (Markings)

"The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the
language of word."
— Kedar Joshi

""You can clean your sword as much as you want but the blood still stains it.""
— Matsuro

""Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades"
— Keith Collier