There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.

I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

You can’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you'll get it.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She was who she was - she'd been born this way, Why should she have to change who she was to satisfy someone else?

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

A fool and his words are soon parted.