We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

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.

...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.

What if we lived like Jesus really did rise from the dead?

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

And you let go of your chance.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.