Princess Diana quotes:

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.

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

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

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

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

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

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Life is just a journey.

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

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

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

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

Only do what your heart tells you.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

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

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

I decline to go fox hunting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

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

I'm as thick as a plank.

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.

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

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

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

... 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.

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

All people want to be touched.

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

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.

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.

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.

Death doesn't frighten me.

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

Everybody needs hugs.

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

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

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

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

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

I am always going to be true to myself.

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

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

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

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

I don't go by the rule book

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.

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

I love meeting people and helping them.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My God. What's happened?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whatever 'in love' means.

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

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

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 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'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some.