Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (1929-1945) was a German Jewish writer. She is most well known for her teenage diary describing two years in hiding during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She died at 15 in a concentration camp.


As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you’ll know that you’re pure within and will find happiness once more.

Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.

God has not forsaken me, and he never will.

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone...with the sky, nature and God.

[War is not] simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.