Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

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.

my parents Oedipal fakers

He talks at the drop of a pause.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

You can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

The street has its own use for things.