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

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

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.

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.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.