It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

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.

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

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.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

My very best advice to fellas: work from the outside in.

Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.