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.

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 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.

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.

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,

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.

I love meeting people and helping them.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some.

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.

My God. What's happened?

I am never going to get divorced, and that's that.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Life is just a journey.

It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.

One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

I'm as thick as a plank.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

I am always going to be true to myself.

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

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 work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

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

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

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

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

... 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.

Everybody needs hugs.

I decline to go fox hunting.

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

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

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

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.

Whatever 'in love' means.

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

All people want to be touched.

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.

Death doesn't frighten me.

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

I don't go by the rule book

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