Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

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.

Don’t carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It’s too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

When an answer finally comes to me, I know I've completely lost all my wits - or as my mama used to tell my father, I have a few screws loose.

I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.

Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.

Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.