You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: “Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise.” And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.

If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, – aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, – would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.

Without stones there is no arch.

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.