I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

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.

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength, ' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

Life is too short to be little.

Every day you learn something new.

It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.