Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

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.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.