Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

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.

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

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