Princess Diana

“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 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.”

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

“It's not sissy to show your feeling.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I wear my heart on my sleeve.”

“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.”

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

“Everybody needs hugs.”

“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.”

“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 don't go by the rule book”

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

“My God. What's happened?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Whatever 'in love' means.”

“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 a free spirit - unfortunately for some.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 decline to go fox hunting.”

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

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

“All people want to be touched.”

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

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

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

“When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.”

“I love meeting people and helping them.”

“Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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