And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

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.

An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.