"I don't want to be like the others who just let life happen to them."

"Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?"

"There's a saying that 'clothes make the man.' I wouldn't say that, but I would say that clothes make the woman."

"I've discovered that the best way to keep your spirits up is to think of all the things you have left to do."

"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being transformed into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us …"