Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.