Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?