These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come from.

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.

See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.

It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.