I am ashamed of my nation.

I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Your life is yours to live as you choose.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'

We are never so lost that our angels cannot find us.