As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father.

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.