Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

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.

A determined soul and indomitable spirit are necessary for any achievement.

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

We pass through this world but once.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.