Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.

When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.