Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

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.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.

Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.

Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.