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.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

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.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.