Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.