What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?

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.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

She might have acted like she didn't know.But she knew, a woman always knows

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.