It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.

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.

Do not fear to give yourself a chance that will change you for the better.

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.