I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

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.

Always trust your instinct! If you just close your eyes, talk to God and listen you can always hear the truth

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.

Abandoning your true self amounts to suicide except that it is less dramatic. Don't commit suicide so that you may appease some folks...

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role twice.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.