Erdogan wants a caliphate. We Kurds are in his way. Erdogan can't stop us politically, so he is denouncing us as terrorists.

The package destroys not just the peace process but all the peace dynamics in society. This is a bid to crush opposition.

We expect Germany to push more strongly for democracy and human rights in Turkey.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

Timing is everything, as you know.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.