Anne Frank

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

It's an odd feeling, writing in a diary. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

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

I've learned one thing: you only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and only then can you judge their true characters!

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

Paper has more patience than people.

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.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being transformed into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.

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

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

As I've told you many times, I'm a bundle of contradictions.

I've discovered that the best way to keep your spirits up is to think of all the things you have left to do.

I want to be an author of world-famous books.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.

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

I must work, so that I shall not be a burden to anyone.

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