[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.