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

Help yourself and God will help you

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.

I fear nothing for God is with me!

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.

In God’s name let us go on bravely.

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.

If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin.

The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter,

I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.

What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.

It’s a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can’t.

Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.

One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.