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.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

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.

How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.