Prince Harry of Wales

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

We won’t unlock opportunities for young women and girls unless we can change the mindset of every family and community. To achieve this, it cannot just be women who speak up for girls.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.