Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.

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.

Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

How now, wit! Whither wander you?