Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I have to be seen to be believed.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

Be thankful for your loved ones and tell them you love them.