It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.
We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation. . . . What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.