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.

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.

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.

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

So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?

A good pastor knows how to trust people and how to give them authority to fulfill all kinds of tasks. He tries to make himself unnoticed and unnecessary. Don’t be indispensable!

Know what you really want. Know why you want it and how you will get it. That's the key!

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I got cat class and I got cat style

We need to have our medical records put on the IT.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.