No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

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.

If you make sleeping your hobby then poverty becomes your best companion

I have lots of favourites. That's the trouble with books. You can never choose your favorite. It changes depending on your mood.

All's well so long-as you don't get shot in the hind end with a twenty gauge.

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.