Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

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.

Jocks usually aren't smart. Their muscles feast on their brains.

Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say “God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.