We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

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.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace.

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

You Life is a progress, and not a station.

At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.