Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

Wine makes all things possible.

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.