I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

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.

Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.

I haven't been to too many cons since Star Wars, and I don't think it's really going to change until it comes out.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.