People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.

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

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

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 daughters.

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. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.