Princess Diana Quotes

Family is the most important thing in the world.

I am always going to be true to myself.

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

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

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

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

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

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?

I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some.

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

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.

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.

Whatever 'in love' means.

My God. What's happened?

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

I'm as thick as a plank.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I went to the top lady, the Queen, sobbing and I said, ''What do I do? I'm coming to you, what do I do?''And she said, ''I don't know what you should do, Charles is hopeless''. And that was it, that was help.

I decline to go fox hunting.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

All people want to be touched.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Life is just a journey.

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 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.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.