When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

I just write mechanical things.

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

In married life three is company and two none.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.