Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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.

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.