This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they 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.

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.