The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

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.

When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God’s Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.

Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.

Love never fails but people fails in how to love-Jesus never fails

Yes, " I said, staring at the way the sunshine glinted, quite prettily, on the broken fragments. Odd that something so wrecked could be so beautiful.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.