Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, a….

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems….

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world..

No one ever was the poorer for giving.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest..

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me..

Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters aft….

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

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn..

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid….

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their shar….

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becomi….

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange..

I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!... I can't imagine that I would have to lead the ….

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up..

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction..

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and miser….

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can….

Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful,….

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go o….