With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.

No matter who you are or where you're from somewhere down the road you're gonna need someone.

In the light of one choice, we will sing with one voice.

Love is the sweetest pain inside.

My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany.

Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

When your heart's not open you can't see what you've got.

Everyone needs a touch.

It's the kisses that are universal.

Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God

No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.