It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it.

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Uncertainty is one of government recipes.

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it.

I have done many impious things–no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit...