For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.