It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.

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.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

your judgement judges you and defines you

Im obsessed with leather jackets!

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

God, through Jesus Christ, is the victory, and the renewed earth will reflect that glory.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.