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

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.

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.

Kindness is virtue itself.

ME SIENTO MAL POR TI VIEJO AMIGO, PERO AL FINAL DEL DIA FUE MEJOR QUE TE FUERAS.

The profits of good luck are perishable if you build on fortune you build on sand the more advancement you achieve the more dangers you run.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.