The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Commerce unites; religion divides.

You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.