Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

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.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find a shadow in the night? I guess that’s why so many people are so obsessed with the idea of bringing things to the light…to the clear, so to speak.

If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it’s with our aging parents.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.

My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.