I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

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.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Your happiness is my happiness.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

Your mental attitude is your motivation and your inspiration.

Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.