The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

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.

Everything you ever needed to know is waiting in the space between your thoughts.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

If we could stop wasting food, imagine how many more people we could feed!

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"