I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.

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

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

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

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

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

I believe in anything that works.