I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression.

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.