Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

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.

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.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light

He is all fault who has no fault at all.

I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.

Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.

You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.