Diana, Princess of Wales

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospice for the dying or a hospital for sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

I knew that something profound was coming my way and I was just treading water, waiting for it. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know where it was. I didn't know if it was coming next year or next month. But I knew I was different from my friends in where I was going.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

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

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

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

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.

Only do what your heart tells you.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved.

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

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.