Quotes from Anne Frank

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

Because paper has more patience than people.

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

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

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

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.