“What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.”

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.

Every man gives his life for what he believes … one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.

I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.

I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.

I would have gone nevertheless.

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.