Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

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.

Not with a club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone –A Whip so small you could not see itI've known

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed, could not even fill the hunger of a child.

Not just chubby fat, I'm talkin' gordo

That secondary provides worse coverage than a Guatemalan HMO.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.

The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.