I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

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.

I angle my head down and peer up at him through my lashes in what I hope is an alluring manner. I have zero experience in this area though, so it’s possible I look like a total moron.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

I really think that 'Sports Illustrated' is a big step in the "healthy is the new skinny" movement.