You know, I've always considered women to be people.

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.

Past success secures future failure if we continue to bask in its glow for too long

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Dream big, because dreams do happen.

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.