There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

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.

If only they could see the things we hide behind those shining eyes and blissful smiles.

This is the future, ” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

If you ask her to do things on command, like clap or walk, she just shuts down. She does not want to perform.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

Let's cause some senators distress.

Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!