I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.

The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.

No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

Predators did not need mercy.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Horror movies can really go one way or the other - they can go amazingly or they can go terribly - and it's generally an extreme, in one way or the other, so you have to be very careful.

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

A mother never fully delivers.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.