Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

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.

Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume

Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.

People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.