To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader."- Capt. Bligh(ret.)

No men can save himself, that's why Jesus was nailed on the cross.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.