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

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.

The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

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

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

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