People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

Death devours all lovely things.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.