All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.

Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.