- [First LInes]
- Miss Sangorski: [Voiceover] Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears Today of past regrets and future fears; Tomorrow? Tomorrow I may be, Myself, with yesterday's seven thousand years.
- Omar Khayyam: Where have you been?
- Hassan Sabbah: Cleansing my soul. Seeking the truth. You are not a religious man Omar, you are a man of science. You wouldn't understand.
- Omar Khayyam: Religious truth is not necessarily the real truth.
- Hassan Sabbah: I pray that our paths never cross again. If they do, I would have to kill you.
- Omar Khayyam: The most excellent jihad is that of the conquest of self.
- Omar Khayyam: Make the most of what time we yet may spend, before we too into dust descend; dust to dust, under dust to lie without song, without wine, without end. Though you may have lain with a mistress all your life, tasted the sweets of the world all your life, still the end of the affair will be your departure, it was a dream that you dreamed all your life.
- Miss Sangorski: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur.
- Miss Sangorski: What does... Rubaiyat mean?
- Miss Sangorski: Rubai is an ancient Arabic word for the number four. However, for the eleventh century Persian poets a rubai was four lines of poetry.
- Miss Sangorski: One day your life will end, and all that will remain are the moments when you have lived your life to the fullest. And if you're lucky, those moments live on in the lives of people you have touched.
- Miss Sangorski: [quoting Khayyam] The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
- Miss Sangorski: [quoting Khayyam] Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse - and thou beside me singing in the wilderness - and now wilderness is paradise.
- Hassan Sabbah: [to one of his followers] Go and jump off the wall in the name of God.
- Omar Khayyam: Surely, a man who can ask him to jump can ask him not to jump.
- Hassan Sabbah: [to the man going to jump] Stop!
- [to Omar]
- Hassan Sabbah: You're weak. I have enough men to do god's will.
- Omar Khayyam: God's will?
- Hassan Sabbah: In your world knowledge leads you to power, in mine faith is power.
- Grandfather: [voice over] Malilshah and his importance soon faded away as his fragile empire broke apart.
- Kamran: What happened to Hassan?
- Grandfather: He became known as the old man of the mountains. He rode from the shadows along with his silent killers, who were known as Hashish. That's where the term assassin came from.
- [Last lines]
- Grandfather: Remember, it wasn't Omar's poetry that made him important, it was the poetry of his life.
- Kamran: Can I see it?
- Miss Sangorski: The book sank with the Titanic in 1912.
- Kamran: But didn't he make a copy?
- Miss Sangorski: There is another. It's in the Museum fuer Kunsthandwerke in Frankfurt. But he did make five hundred and fifty working copies.
- Kamran: Wow! He must have messed up a lot.
- Miss Sangorski: He wanted to get every detail right.