Much that may seem evil can be good.

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.

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

The miracle of the moment!

Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.