Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave, ' his father told him.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Laughter is poison to fear.

We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.