When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

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.

What happens to us are tiny matters compared to us response to any situation.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

I enjoy Saturday night racing.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!