If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

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.

He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument.

Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.