Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

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.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

If you have Lost something, there's always something Coming, just live by to see it.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

I am not surprised by any situation. The Saviour is my strength.

Your smile is poetry to my soul igniting flames of old

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.