Princess Diana Quotes

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

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 am a free spirit some don't like that but that's who I am.

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

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

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

I love meeting people and helping them.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

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

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

I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

I am always going to be true to myself.

I decline to go fox hunting.

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.

All people want to be touched.

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

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

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