"Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!"

"Little bundle of contradictions."

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

"Paper is more patient than man."

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

"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again."

"I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday."

"What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is."

"I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!"

"I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?"

"The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend."

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

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

"I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!"

"This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."

"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway."

"Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old."

"Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live."

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

"Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."

"I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing."

"There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man."

"Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?"

"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."

"The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book."

"Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill."

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

"If I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days."

"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."

"Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again."

"Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone."

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."

"I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer."

"The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!"

"The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?"

"Misfortunes never come singly."

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer."