What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

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.

Believe in true beauty and the power of a loving smile because it can reveal the ultimate magic of life.

Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love.

the past is a liarfull of promises it can't keepbut like a foolish first loveyou keep going back to it

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

People who live in the now; those people make things happen.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.

Never rest on past success. Create something better.