“You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!”

“A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves.”

“My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.”

“How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.”

“If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.”

“Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself. In my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize. I desire the tangible.”

“Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.”