"The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and…"

"I am the arm of God, and my mission is to punish the wicked."

"Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders."

"Do not despise the snake for having no horns, for who is to say it will not become a dragon?"

"One arrow can be easily broken, but many arrows bound together are indestructible."