It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?

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.

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that you would never do anything.

I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.