The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not ...

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

Nothing good ever ends.

Art is what is irresistible.

I believe in anything that works.

All things lie dark in possibility.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

Live, for this is the time of your life.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

The order I found was the order of disorder

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

My work has always been the product of my time.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

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

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

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

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

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

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

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

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

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