Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.

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.

Don't just Hurry, don't just Haste. Don't just Worry, don't just Waste. Life is a Treasure, Enjoy the Pleasure.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

Every thing—every atom is conscious. To find it we have to open our eyes and see with a higher consciousness.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

As soon as you start to tell yourself in your perception that you can't do something anymore, then your biological system will adjust to prove you right. You will not do what you think you can't do.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.