No one ever was the poorer for giving

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.