All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.

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."

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

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.