Humanitarian Quotes

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

Death doesn't frighten me.

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

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

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I love meeting people and helping them.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

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

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

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.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

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

Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm.

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

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

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

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

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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

Never throw out anyone.

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

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

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

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

How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Life is just a journey.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

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

To be happy - that's all that matters.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

I love people who make me laugh!

When you learn to listen to your gutt, your find all the answers.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

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.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

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

I hate girls that giggle all the time... You hate any girl that David looks at.

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

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

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

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

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

Everybody needs hugs.

My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.