It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.

That suit is best that best suits me.

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling.