I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me!

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains... My advice is : 'Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and t…

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 …

I believe that in the course of the next century [as dated from June 13, 1944] the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way fo…

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward and unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to …