Suleiman the Magnificent — "I am the sultan of love."

"The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war; Worship of God is the …"

"The world is a bridge. Pass over it, but build no house upon it."

"I am God's slave and sultan of this world. By the grace of God I am head of Muhammad's community."

"My sheer delight, my revelry, my feast, my torch, my sunshine, my sun in heaven;/ My orange, my pomegranate, the flaming candle that lights up my pavilion."

"I, the sultan of sultans, the sovereign of sovereigns, the distributor of crowns to the monarchs of the globe, the shadow of God on earth..."