I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

There are no men like me. There's only me

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

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

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.

I love you more than my own skin.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.