What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

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.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.

Dreams are doorways into other dimensions that you forget how to open once you’re awake.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.