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.

I have to be seen to be believed.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

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

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.