Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

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.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Unless the she-wolf agrees, there’s always a chance of rejection.

Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.

There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.