A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

God speaks repeatedly and in many different ways

With love, nothing is impossible.

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.

Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.