I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.