... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.