You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

I often speak with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When I speak with the Turkish president, I defend European positions. That is how we European partners must do things.

My bedroom's like an armoury.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.