Kill the boy and let the man be born.

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 energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Never close your hands in the face of evil fate

It may be too late, if you wait until Christmas to show those who you love, you have loved them.

A mark.... is left when you complete your internal quest when you leave........

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog, all of the time.

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.