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

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.

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

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

He's special, but not the kind anyone wants to be. I don't know what to do about that.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.