Help yourself and God will help you

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

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

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.

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

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.

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

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

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 was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on, ' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a choice.

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

You might be a redneck if the richest member of your family bought a house and you have to help take the wheels off of it.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

If you want to live for all, you will never meet anywhere