Quotes from Princess Diana

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

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

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.

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

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

Only do what your heart tells you.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

My God. What's happened?

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

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

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

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

I decline to go fox hunting.

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

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

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.

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

All people want to be touched.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

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

Life is just a journey.

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