“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.”

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.

[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.

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.

The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

There’s a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I’d rather be learning something cool.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.