Anne Frank

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

No one ever was the poorer for giving

I've found that there is always some beauty left-in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

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.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

Paper has more patience than people.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

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 mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Live with the objective of being happy.

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.