Anne Frank Quotes

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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

I wish to go on living even after my death.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

Because we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.

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

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

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