Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

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.

First fill your heart with an abundance of love. Then let the light of your love enlighten the whole world.

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.