"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." - Machiavelli

"The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters." - Chingis Khan

"My brother has whispered your name to the spirits that haunt the uplands of the Dark Land. A bat has flown over the Mountains of the Dead and drawn your image on the white tiger's hide that hangs before the long hut where sleep the Four Brothers of the Night. The great serpents coil around their feet and the stars burn like fireflies in their hair." - the demon of Zogar Sag