“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad.”

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

I’ve given myself away, the whole of me, every part.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Who said nights were for sleep?

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.