Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

And you can always, always, give kindness

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.