The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.

People who give will never be poor.

Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

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