Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

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.

Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.