"If I die you are my killer, O merciless, infidel woman."

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

"The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, but in this world a spell of health is the best state."

"I am the slave of God and the ruler of the world, and in my name the Friday sermon is read in Mecca and Medina. In Baghdad I am the shah, in Byzantine realms the Caesar, and in Egypt the sultan."

"The sea is a great lord, and it does not suffer the existence of any other lords."