Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

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.

If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem!

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.