Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Love is nature's psychotherapy.

A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.

When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it.

Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?