“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”

We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

All ought to be common among friends.

We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.

It’s the risk takers that move the human race forward.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

They told me never fall in love, it never works out in your favor. You’re way too young, and right now that’s just human nature.