Phrases

On June 25, 1997, seventy-nine of Diana's dresses and gowns were auctioned at Christie's in New York, raising $3.26 million for AIDS and cancer charities.
~"I can honestly say that one of my greatest pleasures has been my association with people. I've been allowed to share your thoughts and dreams, your disappointments, and your happiness. You have also given me an education by teaching me more about life and living than any books or teachers could have done. My debt of gratitude to you all is immense. I hope in some small way I have been of service in return. Your kindness and affection have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and care have eased that journey. And for that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart."~

At a Washington gala dinner to aid the American Red Cross, in June 1997, Diana said:
~ I do so welcome this opportunity to share with you all some experiences of the waste of life, limb, and land which antipersonnel land mines are causing amongst some of the poorest people on earth. Permit me not to tell you exactly what I saw. What is so cruel about these wounds is they are almost invariably suffered where medical resources are scarce. A chronic shortage of medicine, of pain killers, even of anaesthetics. Surgeons engaged in amputating limbs without the facilities we would expect to see here. The evil that men do lives after them... ~