We become a great house by entering alliances with other houses and parlaying those alliances into greater power
If you acquire a reputation as a mad dog, you'll be treated as a mad dog
The North is larger than the other six kingdoms combined, and I'm the Warden of the North
Lord Walder let me choose any of his granddaughters, and promised me the girl's weight in silver as a dowry. So I have a fat young bride