Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.