Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

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.

I don't profess any re

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

So who do I want to be tomorrow?

Get Fired Up About Your Life Because If You Don't Who Will?

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.