When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self!

One of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is.

Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality.

That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.

Never repeat old grievances.

Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.