“Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?”
“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
“A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint. ”
“You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.”
“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.”