I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Never give anybody permission to disturb your peace. Always ignore negative comment.Dwell on positive thoughts and occupied your mind with songs of praise.

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.