Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.