“It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.”

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

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.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.

I’ve never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.