Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?""Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.

Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.