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

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.

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.

After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here.

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!

His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.