I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

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.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

A cry-wanking scene is the struggle to live, in a single moment.

The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

I love a doctor who can respect that somebody else is on your team, and that's God.

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.