People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

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.

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

You are the conductor of your own success train.