Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

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.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

People have the freedom to say what they want, and I get it - mean stuff sells better than nice stuff.

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.