No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

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.

In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

Happy is he that chastens himself.

If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.