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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I’ll show then that Anne Frank wasn’t born yesterday

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart,

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

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

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a...

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.

There’s in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built...

There is a saying that “paper is more patient than man”;it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up...

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

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.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank — A History for Today

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

It is becoming a bad dream– in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can’t get at him, I mustn’t show anything, must remain gay while I’m...

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Because paper has more patience than people.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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.

You are all made of real poop.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death … I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

The art of living. Isn’t that a funny expression?

How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

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

I don’t believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have...

Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as...

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

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.

I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

…by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty...

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.

Our opening ceremony this year is really exciting.

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel...

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews