For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.

He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.

Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

God had mercy, he knew. The Mongols had none.

There is no escape from me, not even in death.

The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.”“That could have happened to anyone!

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

True Friends look at you with no judgment in their eyes, they know you've made mistakes but they accept you for being human and help you right the wrongs

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.

Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.