Our future is our sense of common destiny.

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

Today the search for a new global order is under way.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?" -346

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.

If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.