Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

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.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

Be what you are and sing a song of beauty and love.

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.