Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.