A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote ‘Killing Jesus,’ because I think I was directed to write that.

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.