Age is rarely kind to anyone. Nothing one can do about it. One just has to get on with it.
You don’t raise your game by talking or thinking. You raise your game through action.
You can trust numbers. They’re honest. There is no mystery or deception or allegory. You know where you stand. What you see is what you get.
There is an imperative within man, all men, to make a mark. Action is what defines us.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Oft got without merit and lost without deserving.[quoting William Shakespeare]
One of the most unfortunate things about being sovereign I have discovered is that you paralyze virtually any situation you walk into.
Nothing wrong with a coronation. Under the right circumstances.
If we all had to thank one another every time we did anything in this family, we’d never get anywhere.[to Charles]
