Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

I have so much health problems, but I believe I could still make it through.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.