We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, " said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.

Having had this kind of binge reading relationship with online content for 15 years we're starting to think 'Hang on, we only have finite time and there is infinite content'.

Radical optimism is a wide screen view of the moment nay the inconceivable, as you please.

Sometimes the man of your dream only belongs in your dream.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I'd love to sponsor a dolphin.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.