Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

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.

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

Nakajima's presence didn't put any pressure on me, either. Quite the opposite: there was a warmth in the core of my chest when he was around.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

You are everything and everyone. You are in all things. You exist in all conditions. You are the universe. You just think of yourself as existing within a temporal body

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.