Explore Quotes by Princess Diana

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

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.

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

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

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

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

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.

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.

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

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.