Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

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.

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!