Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

The key to life is imagination.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.