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.

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.

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?