Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

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.

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

Anyone whose lifestyle may frighten you or whose point of view makes smoke come out of your ears.

Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!