Quotes from Anne Frank

And you can always, always give kindness

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

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.

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.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

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?

Where there is hope...there is life

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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.

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

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.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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

I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.

Everyone has inside of her 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!

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Parents can only give good advice or put them [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!