In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

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.

Discipline is the bridge between a great idea and a completed novel.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I got my views. I'd post two or three songs a week.

We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

What we think about and talk about expands into action.