Poems List

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

‘Peter was lucky to get a job at the post office in the camp which was established for the SS soldiers and the non-Jewish prisoners who got mail and parcels.’

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

‘Peter acted like a son to help me. Every day he brought me extra food. . . He never could stay long. We never discussed serious matters and he never spoke about Anne. I did not have the impression that he matured much.’

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter’s father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

‘I can no longer talk about how I felt when my family arrived on the train platform in Auschwitz and we were forcibly separated from each other.

You know what would make a good story Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.

‘It was about half past ten. I was upstairs in the van Pels’s part of the house, in Peter’s room, doing schoolwork with him. Suddenly someone came running up the stairs. Then the door flew open and a man stood before us holding his pistol aimed at my chest. Downstairs all the others were already assembled. My wife and the children and the van Pels family were standing there with raised hands. Then Fritz Pfeffer came in, followed by another stranger. The policemen ordered us to hand over our valuables. Silberbauer took Anne’s briefcase. He shook everything out, dumping the contents on the floor, so that Anne’s papers and notebooks and loose sheets lay scattered all over the floorboards.’

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money.

“Of course, all of us had to work in the camp, but in the evenings we were free and we could be together. For the children especially, there was a certain relief; to no longer be cooped up and to be able to talk to other people. However, we adults feared being deported to the notorious camps in Poland.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Are you currently challenged by anything? If yes, then listen up, you're being challenged in order to be channelled to success. For, challenges are channels that eventually leads to success. Therefore, you've got to hang in there & never give in or up until you prevail.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

The future is bright/colourful. Moreover, it's at your fingertips. But mind you, the choice/decision you make daily surely determines how bright/colourful your own future will become. Therefore, you've got to be mindful of your daily choices/decisions.

If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules First, calm down second, come over and wash my car third, shine all my shoes. There, isn't that better

[A] literary feat of objective narration by an Afrikaner writer was Sword in the Sand (1969), Johannes Meintjes’ narration of Gideon Scheepers’ death by summary trial and execution. In Meintjes’ hands, history enters the realm of epic narrative

It makes me feel so proud that my collection will be carried on by everyone who participated in the past week's sale. I am also glad that the Hall of Fame has part of my collection where it will reside in perpetuity.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you'