It won't do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now. And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

Yes, in the sense that I felt a certain contentment. Not always, mind you. I moaned and groaned from time to time. But I was never downright depressed again, probably because I realized that sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy.

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

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

How are we going to get through this craziness?" I asked. There was silence for a moment. "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said.

Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.

He views life with tenderness and determination.

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.

It has been said that the lives of the early Christians consisted of persecution above ground and prayer below ground.