If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.