But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

You choose who gets your attention, and you don’t have to give it to anyone who makes you feel like crap. Period.

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. Asane woman would run away from you, not toward you.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

I still have horrible luck with girls.

I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships