Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

We all fall sometime, you're not the first. I know it hurts. In the end, you'll find what you deserve.

Doesn’t make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can.

Through joy, the Soul finds its greatest - physical expression.

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.