Quotes by Princess Diana

Only do what your heart tells you.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

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.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Life is just a journey.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

My God. What's happened?

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society -- with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that -- and I found an affinity there.

The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

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

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.

On the press: I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Everybody needs hugs.

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

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.

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.

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

I don't go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.

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

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.

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

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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