The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - who…

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp

How dry eyes can get when they are not allowed to cry!

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp

A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his frie…

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp

When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians of your life. If you can…

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp

Christianity nowadays is like a big household where many cousins live under the same roof. They all belong to the same clan, but at times they have v…

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp

I was slowly taking on the dimensions of a chest of drawers.

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp

jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp

But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but wi…

- Maria Franziska Von Trapp