What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

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.

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.

As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform.

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

If not reason, then the devil.

My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.

We need not want what we are the middle of.

The air is all softness.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog, all of the time.