Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

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.

I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing

وكيف تنساني يا كل ناسي

I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

To a child, 'love' is spelled T-I-M-E.