A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Is there a particular way of looking at your love?” she asked.…..Yes… The way you look at me.

She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Thank you for letting idiots like me, come out and live this wonderful wonderful dream. I love you to death. Lets go home.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

The night destroys the sun

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.