[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

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.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

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

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

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