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

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.

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.

In embracing your difficulties is liberation.

Just because you're in the market for a minivan doesn't mean you can't test drive a hotrod.

Stamp your performance with excellence.

I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

I live and breathe every element in life.