Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

Every good gift comes from God.

Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you.

We ignore the Holy Spirit when we position ourselves at the center of life. - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

I never want to be pretentious.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

I'm not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.