There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.