Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
...if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.
I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I s...
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
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 to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will...
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!
I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're si...
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and h...
Jan Gies won’t need to. He’ll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep
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. I see the world gradually bein...
I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!
I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring mys...
Leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.