Princess Diana Quotes

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

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

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

“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 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 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 lead from the heart, not the head.”

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

“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.”

“Only do what your heart tells you.”

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

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

“... 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 press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.”

“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 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 don't go by the rule book”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Everybody needs hugs.”

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