I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.

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.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.

Kids certainly need a lot of love so they know you're behind them whatever they do, well, more or less.

I'll eat the hell out of a bagel. That's what I do

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.