“Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth.”

“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”

“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”

“Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.”

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.”

“Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”

“Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.”