The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate 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.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.