I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

Paper has more patience than people.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

Misfortunes never come singly.

don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!