Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

Mighty waves of oceans live in my soul to encourage me to survive.

Don’t live like a CEO when you’re still a sandwich artist.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

It's very, very hard to hire people, qualified people. And a lot of people didn't want the job because it's a three- or four-month job.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.