When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.

The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.

Marriage is not a sales deal and you don't have to close it as fast as you can.

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams.