Princess Diana Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

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 do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

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?

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

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

... 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.

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

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.

Death doesn't frighten me.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

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

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.

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

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.