Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.

People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.

Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.

Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.

Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.

For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.

And I saw you and I thought, she'd be a cosy fit inside my arm.

Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.

When we grow in faith, the doubt shall ceased.

What? A man who could admit to his feelings? They really do exist!

Lovers are like kids

I'll shower, then we can go. I smell like a zombie."Hell, if the undead looked like that, bring on the zombie apocalypse.

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.