A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.