No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.