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

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.

I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.

Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,

Settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Courage! Do not fall back.

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.