Beauty can be treacherous.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Fashion design gives you an opportunity to express how you feel".

Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.