İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

The key to success is simple. Make people dream.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Our dreams are a second life.

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.