Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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.

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

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.