Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

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

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

Live with the objective of being happy.

Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.