Princess Diana Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Death doesn't frighten me.

I love meeting people and helping them.

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

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

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.

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't go by the rule book

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 am always going to be true to myself.

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

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