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

[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.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

I should like to be a horse.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... 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.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.