If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

If we still advise we shall never do.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

I understand things that are American, for better or worse.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.