We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

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.

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

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.

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

Amores Perros" and "Once Were Warriors" had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.