You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?