“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.”

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.

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

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.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

I don’t think you ever write a song with any intention except the song’s about such and such per say.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don’t.

To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

It is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.