Princess Diana Quotations

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.

I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they werent aware how much it carried me through.

There is no further comment at this stage.

keep the spirit of the princess very much alive.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold peoples hands, people used to be shocked because theyd never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William had to be induced because I couldn't handle the press pressure any longer,

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.

People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer to fulfillment. Actually a job is better for me.

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

I know it's just a job they have to do, but sometimes I do wish they wouldn't.

These presidents themselves are leading the campaign ... they pick up children with AIDS,

The trouble is some people thought they knew Diana when they really didn't.

They are stealing the princess' image. They're stealing from the very people she wanted to help. I think that is unacceptable,

There were three of us in that marriage,

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.

As always, a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life.

It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.

The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

I don't go by the rule book

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

Death doesn't frighten me.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

All people want to be touched.

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

Whatever 'in love' means.

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

I decline to go fox hunting.

Everybody needs hugs.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart.

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

I'm as thick as a plank.