Let Us Not Take Ourselves Too Seriously.

[before Each Of Numerous Portrait Sittings:] Now Then, With Teeth Or Without?

It Has Turned Out To Be An Annus Horribilis.

Family Does Not Necessarily Mean Blood Relatives But Often A Description Of A Community, Organisation Or Nation.

We All Need To Get The Balance Right Between Action And Reflection. With So Many Distractions, It Is Easy To Forget To Pause And Take Stock.

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.