[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

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

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.