Anne Frank Quotes

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

We can’t control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

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

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.

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.

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.

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.

People who give will never be poor.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I live in a crazy time.