“It was hard work to rule a kingdom, much less seven of them.”
“Heaven, or the kingdom of God, is easy if e work at it hard, but hard if we work at it easy.”
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
“It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.”
“Ruling a large kingdom is like cooking a small fish...”
“The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.”