Happiness is laughing together.

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.

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

You always want to be a little in over your head and be challenged to get better.

There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.