Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

People who give will never be poor.

You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

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