Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.

We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.

When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.

Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take.

Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.

If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.

The truth is, I was always a dreamer, but then I met you, and I knew I will never dream a better dream again.

The only love originates from the light in the soul.

This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Each period has its own appeal.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.