One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words

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.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone

We always fail to recognize when we are at fault, but we are always eager to blame others.

I think the simpler the better.

Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.