Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

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.

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Comment sections on the internet is like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like nonsense and it's ugly to look at.

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

All things move on, good and bad. Never get too high or too low.

A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.