Quotes

“Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.” Princess Diana

“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.” Princess Diana

“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.” Princess Diana

“I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.” Princess Diana

“If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.” Princess Diana

“People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.” Princess Diana

“You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.” Princess Diana

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

“I'm as thick as a plank.” Princess Diana

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

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

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

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

“I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.” Princess Diana

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

“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” Richard Dawkins

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” Richard Dawkins

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” Richard Dawkins

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” Richard Dawkins

“Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?” Richard Dawkins

“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?” Richard Dawkins

“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.” Richard Dawkins

“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.” Richard Dawkins

“A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.” Richard Dawkins

“The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.” Richard Dawkins

“One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.” Richard Dawkins

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.” Richard Dawkins

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.” Richard Dawkins

“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.” Richard Dawkins

“A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.” Richard Dawkins