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

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.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.