There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

Happiness attracts success. Happy people perform at a much higher level with less burnout, greater productivity, and more resilience. You can't win being unhappy.

Love is not an imagination but a radiating light from the heart.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.

Even the young are killing each other.

There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections.

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.