People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.