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

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

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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.