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

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

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.

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.

If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

There is something about sales that is universal

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.