Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.

If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.