The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

Those who don’t know how to love others, how can they deserve love for themselves?

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.