Never speak of defeat before battle.

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.

Whenever i have Wealthy wealth trust me i will change the history of poverty

So, how can I try to be someone I didn't really even know?

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.