Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

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.

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.