The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

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.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.

There's always some room for improvisation.