When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

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.

Focus on lack and you will always struggle to create enough money.

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

None of the constitutional, legal or other principles bars me from returning to the judiciary, since the judiciary remains independent if the actors remain independent and fair.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.