We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

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.

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?