Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.

One should not have to live in the dark.

The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

He was so dominant. Bobby was the greatest defenseman who ever played the game as far as I'm concerned. I believe in my heart he changed the face of the game.

The accountability rests with me.