Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.

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 universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now.

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

Ricin - Death by diarrhea

The crime film is the most honest American film.

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

If you don't know where to put your money, it will be gone.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.