A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Base your self-esteem on truth.

Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to.

Be joyful and expect a great future.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.

I want to be known as the best teammate ever.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.