Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

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.

Write It, Work It, Publish

Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian.

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.