No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (23 February 1940)

Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of peopl…

For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later I, nor anyone else…

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?'…