The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

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.

For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foesAnd we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.

In a way, I feel that film roles haven't given me the opportunity to show I have a sense of humor.

This is the United States of America that I'm representing. I'm not representing the globe.

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.